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 290: Get Out and Push
Spaceflight news
— Astra makes it to space! (twitter.com/lorengrush) (spacenews.com) (space.com)
— Orbital parameters (HT Mike Stewart twitter.com/planet4589)
— Chang’e-5 sample recovery (spacenews.com)
— Now headed to L1 (with DSCOVR) (HT Sam in the chat: twitter.com/AJ_FI)
Short & Sweet
— Project Kuiper reaches a milestone (parabolicarc.com)
— CSA is sending two astronauts to the Moon (asc-csa.gc.ca) (spacenews.com)
Questions, comments, corrections
— Call for help reconstructing Apollo 10 software (github.com/virtualagc)
— Quick software setup guide and code structure/syntax overview (youtube.com)
This week in SF history
— 25 Dec, 2003. Beagle 2 lands on Mars (nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov) (wikipedia.org) (PDF: sci.esa.int)
— Next week (1/5 - 1/11) in 1985: Headed for a first close to home.