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 263: Flat Screen
Spaceflight news
— Demo-2 mission: Endeavor docks with ISS (spacenews)(twitter.com/lorengrush)
— A bell in Unity is rung twice to announce the arrival and departure of vehicles (twitter.com/planet4589)
— A fantastic CollectSpace thread with lots of suit zipper images (collectspace.com)
— Note that the A7L Apollo suit had the pressure zipper on the outside. The inside zipper was just to close the garment
— Crew Dragon/Falcon 9 believed to have lower risk factor than Shuttle (spacenews.com)
— Mark 3 parachutes (spacenews.com)
Short & Sweet
— Virgin Orbit’s first launch attempt fails. (spacenews.com)
— Launch vehicle for China’s Mars mission arrives at space center. (spacenews.com)
This week in SF history
— 8 June, 1966: Saturn 500F moved from the pad to the VAB as Hurricane Alma approached (drewexmachina.com) (wikipedia.org)
— The famous tennis shoe test (youtube.com)
— Next week in 1977: Bombs away!