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Episode 239: DOWNLINK--Kyla Edison
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Spaceflight news
— First results from Parker Solar Probe! (nasa.gov) (nature.com)
Short & Sweet
— Running Out of Fingers successfully tests key elements of rocket reuse (techcrunch.com)
— Huntsville gets a new solid rocket motor maker (rocket.com)
Interview
— Kyla Edison
— Geology and Material Science Technician for PISCES Hawaii
— (linkedin.com)
— (pacificspacecenter.com)
— (instagram.com/geolo_geek)
This week in SF history
— December 15, 1984: Launch of Vega 1 (wikipedia.org)
— Balloon aerobot package (nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov)
— Structures and data article (articles.adsabs.harvard.edu)
— Next week in 1973 - What’s the point of a space telescope with a lifetime of less than a week?