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Episode 226: Duricrust
This week in SF history
— 7 September 1914: Birth of James Van Allen (wikipedia.org)
— Next week in 1962: cloud-based navigation
Spaceflight news
— Starhopper Completes Test Flight (spacenews.com)
— Scott Manley’s excellent coverage (youtube.com)
— More detailed photos (twitter.com/bocachicagal)
— Updates from Elon Musk (twitter.com/elonmusk)
— InSight mole update (spacenews.com)
Short & Sweet
— The completed Rosalind Franklin rover displayed by Airbus engineers! (bbc.com)
— Mars 2020 helicopter integrated into the rover (bbc.com)
— JWST has now been physically assembled (nasa.gov)