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 284: DOWNLINK--Mark Lester
Spaceflight news
— Rocket lab aims to recover booster (spacenews.com) (aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org) (rocketlabusa.com)
Short & Sweet
— Spacebit doesn’t hate wheels, but does love sharing data. (spacenews.com)
— Galactic Energy reaches orbit. (spacenews.com)
— Virgin Galactic enters final testing phase before operations. (spacenews.com)
— The Curse of Scrubtober Ends. (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com)
Interview--Mark Lester, President & CEO, Alaska Aerospace Corporation
— akaerospace.com
— witter.com/alaskaaerospace
— linkedin.com/in/mark-d-lester
This week in SF history
— 11 Nov, 1982. STS-5, the first operational Shuttle mission, and the first to deploy satellites. (newspapers.com) (wikipedia.org) (PDF: spacepresskit.files.wordpress.com)
— Next week in 2000: Hyper carbon-carbon plasma