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 215: Shibboleth
This week in SF history
— 22 June 1978. Discovery of Pluto’s moon Charon by John Christy (wikipedia.org)
Spaceflight news
— Psyche review/preview (spacenews.com)
— Just passed Key Decision Point C (PDF: nasa.gov)
— Multispectral Imager is based on MSL’s Mastcam, MAHLI, and MARDI (hou.usra.edu)
— Deep space laser communication demo (wikipedia.org)
Short & Sweet
— India’s Chandrayaan-2 has launch date (theprint.in)
— India has plans for its own space station. (parabolicarc.com)
— SOFIA improvements (spacenews.com)
Questions, comments, corrections
— Valentin Frank: follow up on Tereshkova’s head injury
— /u/MomoSapiensAD: Herschel mission time correction (reddit.com/r/orbitalpodcast)
— Apollo / Mariner / Viking / Voyager oral history (twitter.com/jccwrt)
— Support the Rocket Cat fund! (gofundme.com)