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Episode 156: Cracked and Canceled
This week in SF history
— 3 May 1976: Birth of Alexander Gerst (wikipedia.org)
— Bringing CIMON to ISS (airbus.com)
Spaceflight news
— Mars 2020 heat shield cracked (spacenews.com)
— Resource Prospector mission canceled (spacenews.com)
Short & Sweet
— TESS is on its way! (spaceflightnow.com)
— GSAT 11 recalled for inspection (spaceflightnow.com)
Questions, comments, corrections
— /u/Fellknight and /u/CapMSFC: Details on frozen lunar orbits (reddit.com/r/orbitalpodcast)
— Eric Blood via email: LDSD did use a ballute! (trs.jpl.nasa.gov)