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Episode 236: Panel jettison
Spaceflight news
— Spacewalk to repair AMS (spacenews.com) (youtube.com)
— AMS overview (nasa.gov)
— Footage from the EVA
— The cover is detached from the restraint clip (youtu.be)
— Jettisoning the cover (youtu.be)
— Chris Cassidy shows off a zip tie cutter/capture device (youtu.be)
Short & Sweet
— Hayabusa2 departs Ryugu (japantimes.co.jp)
— SpaceX completes Crew Dragon Static Fire tests (spacenews.com)
— Launcher gets funding from the Air Force. (spacenews.com)
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This week in SF history
— November 19, 1956 Birth of Eileen Collins (wikipedia.org)
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