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 212: Cosmic Choo-Choo
This week in SF history
— 26 May 1951. Birth of Sally Ride
— Rogers Commission (wikipedia.org) (PDF: spaceflight.nasa.gov)
— Columbia Accident Investigation Board (wikipedia.org) (PDF: nasa.gov)
Spaceflight news
— Starlink deployment begins (spacenews.com) (youtu.be/riBaVeDTEWI)
— N2YO is a good satellite tracking resource (n2yo.com)
— Visibility concerns (vimeo.com) (twitter.com/Alex_Parker/) (twitter.com/cgbassa)
— Auto-avoidance (ieee.org)
— Hayabusa2 aborts second marker deployment (planetary.org)
Short & Sweet
— Student-built Rocket Reaches Space (PDF: squarespace.com) (uscrpl.com)
— OSIRIS-REx Citizen Science (asteroidmission.org) (bennu.cosmoquest.org)
— Vulcan passes its critical design review. (spaceflightinsider.com)
— Long March 4 suffers a failure. (spacenews.com)