Liftoff is a podcast about space, the universe, and everything. You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to understand the major developments as explained by enthusiastic space fans Stephen Hackett and Jason Snell. Hosted by Jason Snell and Stephen Hackett.
Stephen and Jason talk the news, from blackholes to Beresheet, and spacesuits to backronyms. Then, a bit about the Crew Dragon anomaly.
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Links and Show Notes: Support Liftoff with a Relay FM Membership SpaceX's Center Core Booster for Falcon Heavy Rocket Is Lost at Sea | Space International Conference on Environmental Systems New details emerge about Titan's methane lakes - SpaceFlight Insider ACRONYM: Acronym CReatiON for You and Me (PDF) GitHub: ACRONYM (Acronym CReatiON for You and Me) The Incomparable | Turn Left at the Asteroid (Episode 453) Software Command to Fix Faulty Sensor Doomed Beresheet | The Planetary Society David Copperfield’s Secrets - The Technology Behind His Greatest Illusions - Are Locked in a Vault That Just Crash-Landed on the Moon Did NASA Experiment Survive on Failed Israeli Moon Lander? Black Hole Image Makes History; NASA Telescopes Coordinate Observation | NASA Exploring Black Holes | National Science Foundation Seeing a black hole with half a ton of hard drives - Six Colors Katie Bouman: The woman behind the first black hole image - BBC News How to take a picture of a black hole | Katie Bouman - YouTube The black hole image and Katie Bouman: the sexist backlash against her, explained - Vox Here’s what we know, and what we don’t, about the Crew Dragon accident | Ars Technica SpaceX turned to fast-igniting fuel for its capsule escape system. That could be part of the accident probe - Los Angeles Times