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 291: Loss of Legs
Spaceflight news
— Landing Super Heavy (twitter.com/elonmusk) (reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge)
— Scott Manley covered this technique (youtube.com)
— Possible claw-on-cables steadying mechanism (youtube.com)
— Small SN9 update (nasaspaceflight.com)
Short & Sweet
— Long March 8 successfully debuts (spaceflightnow.com)
— Protection of lunar heritage sites signed into law. (spacepolicyonline.com)
This week in SF history
— 7 Jan, 1985: launch of Sakigake (isas.jaxa.jp) (solarsystem.nasa.gov)
— Next week (1/12 through 1/18) in 1997, Rip, or R.I.P.