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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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 17 days 11 hours 42 minutes
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Episode 61: Leaning Tower of Thaicom
Ben stumps everyone for a second week in This Week in Spaceflight History. More info on SpaceX' most recent ASDS landing, More info on ASTRO-H, and Antares returns to the ring.
Episode 60: Popcorn in a Four-Square Ball
BEAM looks beautiful, live landing footage from SpaceX and oh, those damned squirrels. Also: book club!
Episode 59: Fastest Fireworks
Orbital fireworks, an asteroid visit approaches, a Mars orbital science station and a re-flyable F9 first stage.
Episode 58: Golly Gee Whiz What Happened?
OTV-4 remains strange and mysterious, ISS is attacked by a rogue, malevolent paint chip, and we take a trip back in history to talk about Skylab 2
Episode 57: DOWNLINK--Doug Litteken
Doug Litteken is a NASA engineer who is helping to design lightweight constructions. What did we get wrong about BEAM? Let's find out! Also it's another week full of SpaceX news.
Episode 56: Cerise Lizard?
It's a nearly SPX-exclusive week. We had big news announced: Red Dragon is going to Mars and Falcon Heavy will be the most powerful rocket on the planet.
Episode 55: DOWNLINK--PSAS
A group of students and citizens has their eye on a homebrew LEO ascent vehicle. We also talk to the developer of FlightClub.io, and perform some fantastic correction burns.
Episode 54: Centripetal "Explosion"
Bigelow has big plans, Rocketlab has a tiny rocket, and Hitomi is covering a larger volume than previously.
Episode 53: DOWNLINK--Lunar Lion
The Lunar Lion team arose from the Google Lunar XPrize, and is a group of students headed for the Moon! Also Breeze-M's fate is less clear now than ever, and SpaceX did a thing!
Episode 52: The Substitute
Ben is away but John Leeman of Don't Panic Geocast fills in. We discuss "green" propellent, New Shepard's third flight, and Justin Cowart also pops in to explain ASTRO-H.