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 320: DOWNLINK--Danny Gleeson
Spaceflight news
— Astra readies for next orbital launch (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/Astra) (spacenews.com)
— Super Heavy Starship stacked! (twitter.com/StarshipGazer) (twitter.com/ErcXspace) (twitter.com/elonmusk) (twitter.com/RGVaerialphotos) (youtube.com)
— Perseverance’s first sampling attempt (spacenews.com) (nasa.gov) (twitter.com/PaulHammond51)
Short & Sweet
— China hops (spacenews.com)
— OFT-2 slipping from August? (HT DeltaV: twitter.com/SciGuySpace) (HT DeltaV: twitter.com/SciGuySpace) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)
— Blue Origin developing reusable second stage (arstechnica.com)
Questions, comments, corrections
— Another Eric Berger interview on MECO (HT AZ: podcastaddict.com)
Dragonfly interview (HT AZ: forbes.com)
— Watch party! The High Frontier: The Untold Story of Gerard K. O’Neill. Friday Aug 27 6pm ET (calendar.google.com)
Interview -- Danny Gleeson, Co-founder and Chief Commercial Officer of Réaltra Space Systems Engineering
— realtra.space
— twitter.com/realtraspace
— linkedin.com/in/dannyjgleeson
This week in SF history
— 10 Aug, 1966. Launch of Lunar Orbiter 1, first U.S. spacecraft to orbit the Moon (en.wikipedia.org) (nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov) (history.nasa.gov)
— Next week (8/17 - 8/23) in 1993. Move that parking cone over there.