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 277: Little Nub
Spaceflight news
— Nanoracks ISS airlock is nearly complete (spacenews.com) (youtube.com)
— Dynetics HLS mockup arrives at JSC (twitter.com/Dynetics) (techcrunch.com)
— On-orbit refueling is required to get Dynetics HLS to the moon (spacenews.com)
Short & Sweet
— Russia announces solo mission to Venus (dailymail.co.uk) (nplus1.ru) (twitter.com/katlinegrey)
— China preps for Chang’e 5 launch (spacenews.com)
— Artemis III’s landing site (spacepolicyonline.com) (spacenews.com)
Questions, comments, corrections
— Ben Hallert: FH has launched three times, not two (twitter.com/chairboy)
— Ben Hallert: Any Vulcan can have up to 6 SRMs, it’s Centaur that gets heavy (twitter.com/chairboy)
— Andrew Z: Interesting Boeing read (aviationweek.com)
This week in SF history
— 23 Sept, 1999. Mars Climate Orbiter failure (wikipedia.org) (spectrum.ieee.org) (PDF: sunnyday.mit.edu)
— Next week in 2003: a bureaucratic Voltron