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 242: DOWNLINK--Dr. Martin Elvis
Spaceflight news
— ISRO confirms plans for Chandrayaan-3 (spacenews.com)
— Chandrayaan-2 imagery (nasa.gov)
Short & Sweet
— SpaceX plans a moveable tower for pad 39A (spaceflightnow.com)
— Christina Koch breaks a record (spaceflightnow.com)
— Early signs of the Clean Space age: Iridium announces willingness to pay for third party cleanup of failed satellites (spacenews.com)
Interview: Dr. Martin Elvis, Senior Astrophysicist, Center for Astrophysics and Smithsonian
— harvard.edu/~elvis
— Simulated population of asteroids from Mikael Granvik (helsinki.fi)
This week in SF history
— 10 January 2015: first droneship landing attempt (wikipedia.org)
— Next week in 1977: Black side down