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Episode 219: Future Imperfect
This week in SF history
— 18 July 1980: first successful launch of SLV, lofting Rohini RS-1 to orbit. (wikipedia.org)(wikipedia.org)
Spaceflight news
— Chandrayaan-2 summary (planetary.org)(wikipedia.org)
— InSight Lander’s heat probe is stuck. (nasaspaceflight.com)
Short & Sweet
— First Starhopper test hop coming up (spacenews.com)
— Firefly partners up to build a lunar lander. (spacenews.com)
— Tiangong-2 is ready to deorbit. (spacenews.com)
Questions, comments, corrections
— RPG night scheduled! (patreon.com)
— Friday August 30 at 5.30pm PT/8.30pm ET
— Same setting, new game! (Risus)