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Episode 214: Spitzering Nails
This week in SF history
— 16 June 1963. Launch of Vostok 6 with Valentina Tereshkova (wikipedia.org)
Spaceflight news
— Planned retirement of Spitzer (spaceflightnow.com)
— Final GO, launched in 2003 at ~1:30am (boeing.mediaroom.com)
— Private Funding (spaceflightnow.com)
— Iconic image of Andromeda Galaxy (spitzer.caltech.edu)
— Another iconic image, the Helix Nebula (spitzer.caltech.edu)
Short & Sweet
— ISS wants to go commercial (spacenews.com)
— NASA tries new strategy for stuck Martian instrument (mars.nasa.gov)
— China carries out a successful sea launch. (spacenews.com)