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 269: DOWNLINK--Kathryn Crowe
Spaceflight news
— Dream Chaser trunk, Shooting Star, finds its own life (americaspace.com) (sncorp.com) (space.com)
Short & Sweet
— Hayabusa2 now has a sample return date! (spaceflightnow.com)
— Florida’s Mk 2 Starship is being scrapped. (teslarati.com)
— Crew Dragon planned to return in early August. (spacenews.com)
Questions, comments, corrections
— From the intro: the closest images ever taken to the Sun (americaspace.com)
Interview-- Kathryn Crowe, NASA Human Landing System Deputy Lead for Integrated Performance
— twitter.com/kat_cr
— Linkedin.com
— Artemis (nasa.gov)
— Contractors on HLS (twitter.com/dynetics) (twitter.com/spacex) (twitter.com/blueorigin)
This week in SF history
— 23 July 1999: Launch of STS-93 (waynehale.wordpress.com) (astronautix.com) (spacefacts.de) (nasaspaceflight.com) (nasa.gov)
— Next week in 1980: “get to work” on Soyuz