Liftoff is a podcast about space, the universe, and everything. You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to understand the major developments as explained by enthusiastic space fans Stephen Hackett and Jason Snell. Hosted by Jason Snell and Stephen Hackett.
May seems to be the Month of Commercial Crew! Also: NASA is working from home, an exoplanet may be no more and a look at a future Mars sample return mission.
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Links and Show Notes: Support Liftoff with a Relay FM Membership How engineers are operating space missions from their homes - The Verge NASA's Curiosity Keeps Rolling As Team Operates Rover From Home An Earth-Sized World Orbiting in its Star's Habitable Zone Was Found in Older Kepler Data - Universe Today The Case of the Disappearing Exoplanet - The New York Times Strange ingredient in interstellar Comet Borisov offers a clue to its origins | Space Why the Big Bang Produced Something Rather Than Nothing - The New York Times NASA DM-2 SpaceX returns to the launch pad, and there are a few things to watch for | Ars Technica Robert L. Behnken (Colonel, USAF, PH.D.) NASA Astronaut | NASA Douglas G. Hurley (Colonel, U.S. Marine Corps, Ret.) NASA Astronaut | NASA This is SpaceX’s very first human crew - YouTube NASA reveals ambitious multi-spacecraft plan to bring a piece of Mars back to Earth | TechCrunch NASA narrows design for rocket to launch samples off of Mars – Spaceflight Now