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Episode 190: Tin Can
This week in SF history
— December 30, 1995, launch of Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (wikipedia.org) (nasa.gov)
Spaceflight news
— More Starship photos and tweets. (teslarati.com) (twitter.com/elonmusk)
— Technical presentation promised (twitter.com/elonmusk)
— Comparison to publicity photos (nasaspaceflight.com)
— New metallurgy (twitter.com/elonmusk) (twitter.com/elonmusk)
Short & Sweet
— SpaceX reveals first completed Crew Dragon spaceship. (teslarati.com)
— New Shepard is scrubbed until early 2019. (spaceflightnow.com)
— Dream Chaser passes Integrated Review 4 (spacenews.com)
Questions, comments, corrections
— /u/Bananas_on_Mars: Resin sample testing for cover-up glue! (reddit.com/r/orbitalpodcast)
— Show notes mailing list (eepurl.com)
— Space is Cool As Fk (ltpbooks.com)