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 198: 45.16 kilometers
This week in SF history
— February 21, 1964: The birth of Scott Kelly (wikipedia.org)
— February 21, 1964: The birth of Mark Kelly (wikipedia.org)
Spaceflight news
— Saying Goodbye to Opportunity (americaspace.com)(spacenews.com)(youtube.com)
— Close call in 2005 (newscientist.com)
— Superlatives (wikipedia.org)
— Possible Deep sleep issue (twitter.com/elakdawalla)
Short & Sweet
— Fourteen more days of night for Chang’e-4. (spacenews.com)
— RS-25 testing resumes at NASA Stennis (nasaspaceflight.com)
— NASA Officials downplay government shutdown’s effect on JWST’s launch (spacenews.com)
Questions, comments, corrections
— RPG night (patreon.com)
— T-shirt giveaway (sfsf.shop/support-tom)
— Congrats, Rich! (twitter.com/therealrichnez)