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 257: Ocean of Storms
Spaceflight news
— Intuitive Machines selects lunar landing site (spacenews.com)
— Nova-C’s publicity page (intuitivemachines.com)
— Maps of Vallus Schröterie in Oceanus Procellarum (cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net)
— SpaceX and Gateway Logistics Services (spacenews.com) (PDF: beta.sam.gov/)
— Fan cross-section speculations (nasaspaceflight.com)
Short & Sweet
— MEV-1 completes Intelsat-901 relocation. (spacenews.com)
— SpaceX has a Demo-2 launch date. (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/SciGuySpace)
— LauncherOne captive carry. (spacenews.com)
Questions, comments, corrections
— Amy Parent: Rocket Lab will use a ballute (twitter.com/amyinorbit)
This week in SF history
— April 23, 1971, Soyuz-10 fails to dock with Salyut-1 (wikipedia.org)
— Next week in 1954: Puma Puma Priest