Every week we cover the latest spaceflight news, discuss past, current and future exploration efforts, and take a look at upcoming events. Tune in to hear about how humans get to space, how they stay in space and how unmanned craft reach farther and farther into the universe around us.
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Episode 173: Don't Lose Both!
This week in SF history
— September 1, 1960. Project Apollo formed. (hq.nasa.gov)
Spaceflight news
— Starliner spotlight (nasaspaceflight.com) (youtube.com)
— Soyuz 32 landed autonomously (HT Sam Moore: wikipedia.org)
— Kepler mission nearing its end (spacenews.com)
— Scott Manley describes the issues that took out gyros on multiple spacecraft (youtube.com)
Short & Sweet
— Stratolaunch is expanding its range of launch vehicles. (spacenews.com)
— Oppy should be waking up any day now. (spaceflightnow.com)
Questions, comments, corrections
— Smarter Every Day covers the Parker Solar Probe (HT /u/Nerobro: youtube.com)
— MOMO-2 explosion in detail: (phys.org)