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Episode 249: DOWNLINK--Laura Forczyk on her new book Rise of the Space Age Millennials
Spaceflight news
— InSight’s HP3 to get a lil push (www.dlr.de) (twitter.com/NASAInSight) (mars.nasa.gov)
Short & Sweet
— JAXA going forward with sample return mission to Phobos. (spaceflightnow.com)
— SpaceX has a date for a polar launch from the Cape. (teslarati.com)
— CSLI, selects the next round of 18 smallsats to fly on ELaNa missions (nasa.gov)
Questions, comments, corrections
— Andrew Z via email: Interesting read about Space Shuttle software development (aviationweek.com) (PDF: nasa.gov)
Interview -- Laura Forczyk, space careers counselor and author
— Read more about and purchase Rise of the Space Age Millennials
— astralytical.com/rise-of-the-space-age-millennials
— barnesandnoble.com
— amazon.com
— twitter.com/hashtag/SpaceMillennials
— Find out more about Laura
— astralytical.com
— twitter.com/LauraForczyk
— twitter.com/astralytical
— linkedin.com/in/lauraforczyk
This week in SF history
— February 29, 1936, birth of Jack Lousma (wikipedia.org)
— STS-3 landing (youtube.com)
— Next week in 2006: Car crashes apply dV in 300-400 ms. What about five months?