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 191: One Small Step For a Small Rover
This week in SF history
— 2 January 2004: Stardust flies past Wild 2 (wikipedia.org)
— Whipple shielding (wikipedia.org)
Spaceflight news
— Chang’e 4 pre-landing summary (spacenews.com)
Short & Sweet
— SpaceX on schedule for its first commercial interplanetary launch. (teslarati.com)
— India to launch its own astronauts. (indiatimes.com)
— Crewed Orion spacecraft passes critical design review. (nasaspaceflight.com)
Questions, comments, corrections
— Peter via email: cosmic background radiation is only in the microwave spectrum