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Episode 162: Regolith Nap
NASA isn't grabbing ISS and heading to the nearest yard sale, SpaceX is expanding at KSC and *yikes* Opportunity is doing a Mark Watney impression.
Episode 161: DOWNLINK--TU Delft DARE
A team of engineering students at TU Delft are fighting to reclaim their rocketry altitude record.
This Week in Spaceflight History 4 June, 2010. First launch of Falcon 9 (youtu.be)(wikipedia.org) Spaceflight news Ariane 6 update (satelliteobservation.net/) Short & Sweet NASA wants to buy rides on commercial lunar landers by the end of the year (space
Eric Blood worked on the Low Density Supersonic Decelerator, which does have a ballute, but not where we thought.
Episode 159: DOWNLINK--Dr. Dmitry Savranski
I’m supposed to put an episode description here, but I’m just going to say “Modular Active Self-Assembling Space Telescope Swarms” and leave it at that.
Episode 158: Version F
SpaceX flew their first Falcon 9 v6! Or, no, wait, Falcon 9 Block VI. No, wait, Falcon 9 Block 5.
Episode 157: Sunset Parafoil
We discussed several topics, but I'm still just taken by that fairing recovery photo.
Episode 156: Cracked and Canceled
Mars 2020 needs a new heat shield, and the lunar Resource Prospector instruments need a new platform!
Episode 155: Party Balloon
Elon Musk reveals a potential second stage reuse strategy, and Orbital ATK gives a new name to NGLS
Episode 153: DOWNLINK--Tess Caswell
Tess Caswell has done a lot of things, but today we're talking to her about her time sitting at the ETHOS desk in ISS MCC, controlling the life support systems on Station.