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Episode 186: DOWNLINK--Richard Witherspoon
This week in SF history
— 1 December 2000: Launch of STS-97 (wikipedia.org)
Spaceflight news
— Virgin Orbit completes captive carry test flight (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)
Short & Sweet
— Crew Dragon’s Test Flight Scheduled (spacenews.com)
— China Prepares for Lunar Lander (spacenews.com)
— A Glimpse Into SpaceX’ Spaceship Testing (spacenews.com)
— NASA picks a landing site for Mars 2020 Rover. (spaceflightnow.com)
Questions, comments, corrections
— Maximum Aerodynamic Pressure released by Tim Dodd (youtube.com)
Interview
— Richard Witherspoon, mission operations systems engineer, Lockheed Martin
— asteroidmission.org
— twitter.com/OSIRISREx