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 217: Ms. Tree Snags the Fly!
This week in SF history
— July 2, 1952: birth of Linda Godwin (wikipedia.org)
— STS-37 (wikipedia.org)
— STS-59 (wikipedia.org)
— STS-76 (wikipedia.org)
— STS-108 (wikipedia.org)
Spaceflight news
— Dragonfly (planetary.org) (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (jhuapl.edu)
— Falcon Heavy successfully flies STP-2 mission (spacenews.com) (teslarati.com)
— Center core TVC failure (twitter.com/elonmusk)
— Ms. Tree caught half a fairing (twitter.com/Erdayastronaut/)
Questions, comments, corrections
— Help name the Mars 2020 rover! (futureengineers.org)
— twitter.com/hashtag/Mars2020
— Clara Ma’s winning entry for Curiosity (nasa.gov)
— twitter.com/call_him_bob