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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The ongoing adventures, but mostly arguments, of a couple of astronauts in the not-so-distant future.
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Episode 475: Falcon Crunch
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Spaceflight News -- B1062 lost (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (youtube.com) (HT ArcadeEngineer: twitter.com) Short & Sweet -- Intuitive Machines selected for lunar South Pole mission (spacenews.com) -- Stoke Space wins contract to prototype cargo delivery (satellitetoday.com) (stokespace.com) -- Starline…
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Episode 474: Another Six Months
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Spaceflight News -- Starliner crew to return on Dragon (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) Short & Sweet -- EscaPADE arrives in Florida (spacenews.com) -- SLS gets bumped up a block (spacenews) -- RFA first stage lost in test-firing anomaly (arstechnica.com) (spacenews.com) (europeanspaceflight.com) (youtu.be) This Week in Spaceflight History -- …
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Episode 473: DOWNLINK--Rocket Lab's EscaPADE Team
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Spaceflight News -- First polar-orbiting crewed mission announced (spacenews.com) (arstechnica.com) Short & Sweet -- New solid rocket game in town (breakingdefense.com) (spacenews.com) -- Spaceport Rundown (flyingmag.com) (europeanspaceflight.com) (cnbc.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections -- From Espen Urkedal via email: Raptor 3 is not as incomp…
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Episode 472: Megadebris
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Spaceflight News -- Megadebris? (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (slingshot.space) Short & Sweet -- NEOWISE ends operations (space.com) (spaceflightnow.com) -- Starliner still stuck at Station (spaceflightnow) Questions, Comments, Corrections -- From Upcoming Spaceflight Events: -- JUICE Earth flyby #1 on Aug 19/20 (esa.int) -- Online FAA meeting RE…
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Episode 471: Rubber Baby Whipple Bumper
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Spaceflight News -- ADRAS-J rendezvous (HT Zach: twitter.com/CRD2_JAXA) (astroscale.com) (PDF: astroscale.com VIA astroscale.com) Short & Sweet -- POLARIS spaceplane startup back on track (europeanspaceflight.com) -- Dawn does docking (spacenews.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections -- From the intro: JWST looks at Epsilon Indi A (nasaspaceflight.c…
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Episode 470: DOWNLINK--Martin Frederick
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Spaceflight News -- Falcon 9 Return to Flight (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) Short & Sweet -- ABL Static fire failure (spacenews.com) -- Starliner Debugging (spacenews.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections -- The RAX bug was caused by differing clocks (youtube.com) Interview -- Martin Frederick, Northrop…
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Spaceflight News -- NASA nixes VIPER (spacenews.com) (newscientist.com) European Short & Sweet -- Ariane 6 may carry crew (europeanspaceflight.com) -- Europe announces RAMSES mission to Apophis (arstechnica.com) (esa.int) -- Themis gets delayed (europeanspaceflight.com) This Week in Spaceflight History -- 29 Jul, 1999. Deep Space 1, NASA’s first S/…
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Episode 468: Upper Stage Downer
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Spaceflight News -- Falcon 9 Failure (spacenews.com) (spaceflightnow.com) -- Ariane 6 anomaly (europeanspaceflight.com) (spaceflightnow.com) -- Hyperbola-1 mishap (spacenews.com) Short & Sweet -- Europa Clipper faces last-minute obstacle (space.com) -- Dawn gets green light for spaceplane tests (spacenews.com) This Week in Spaceflight History -- 17…
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Episode 467: DOWNLINK--MSI-DFAT
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Spaceflight News -- Luch (Olymp) 2 “caught” snooping (sattrackcam.blogspot.com) (sattrackcam.blogspot.com) (russianspaceweb.com) (thespacereview.com) Short & Sweet -- The Poles make it to space! (europeanspaceflight.com) -- ISRO announces major size increase to Indian space station (x.com/ISROSpaceflight) Interview -- MSI-DFAT -- We talked to: -- A…
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Episode 466: All Aboard?
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Spaceflight News -- The Vulcan train is leaving the station (spacenews.com) Short & Sweet -- Starliner’s extended-er ISS stay (spacenews.com) -- A not-so-static test fire (spacenews.com) -- Resurs P1 breaks up (spacenews.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections -- From the intro: (americaspace.com) This Week in Spaceflight History -- 8 July, 1994. Lau…
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Episode 465: Reflown Don
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Spaceflight News -- Long March 10 hot firing (spacenews.com) (weixin.qq.com) (youtube.com) (spacenews.com) -- Latest taikonaut class selected (space.com) Short & Sweet -- ESA gets involved in Vega C’s transfer (europeanspaceflight.com) -- Ariane 6 gets dressed (spacenews.com) -- Starliner’s extended ISS stay (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) This Wee…
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Episode 464: Starliner Seep
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Spaceflight News -- Starliner OFT (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (HT deltaV: twitter.com/cbs_spacenews) (twitter.com/SciGuySpace) -- Suni Williams gave a tour on orbit (HT Dennis O: youtube.com) Short & Sweet -- Chinese space plane proximity ops (sattrackca…
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Episode 463: The Camera That Could
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Spaceflight News -- Starship Test Flight 4 (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (youtube.com) (spacey.space/@spmttracker) Short & Sweet -- Vast plans for ESA (spacenews) -- Chang’e-6 has its moon rocks (spacenews) (spacenews.com) -- Hubble Hobble (spacenews.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections -- RIP Bill Anders (apnews.com) -- Traches: Relativit…
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Episode 462: Oh, Dear, No Moon
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Spaceflight News -- ThinkSubOrbital (spacenews.com) (PDF: nasa.gov) (spacenews.com) (youtube.com) (sbir.gov) (sbir.gov) Short & Sweet -- Starliner scrub (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) -- Indian startup Agnikul Notches launches first flight (payloadspace.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections -- From the intro: -- Chang’e 6 landin…
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Episode 461: DOWNLINK--Justin Fiaschetti
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Spaceflight News -- More Starliner Delays (spacenews.com) (HT deltaV: twitter.com/jeff_foust) (spacenews.com) (HT deltaV: https://arstechnica.com) Short & Sweet -- U.S. accuses Russia of launching countersat weapon (spacenews.com) (payloadspace.com) -- Redwire wins award for European lunar lander’s robot arm (europeanspaceflight.com) Questions, Com…
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Episode 460: 90 years, 105 km
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Spaceflight News -- NASA Joins Rosalind Franklin Team (spacenews.com) -- Unknown Russian sat launched (sattrackcam.blogspot.com) (russianspaceweb.com) Short & Sweet -- Georgia scraps Spaceport Camden (actionnewsjax.com) -- Starliner leaks Helium (spacenews) This Week in Spaceflight History -- 27 May, 1999: The launch of STS-96 (nasa.gov) (nss.org) …
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Episode 459: DOWNLINK--Adam Higginbotham
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Spaceflight News — Chang’e-6 mission underway (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (nature.com) (spacenews.com) Short & Sweet — Starliner delayed (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com) (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) — Long March 6C makes first flight (cgtn.com) (spacenews.com) — Neutron debut slips into 2025 (payloadspace.com) Questio…
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Episode 458: Precise Ballpark
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Spaceflight News — Artemis I Lessons (spacenews.com) (PDF: oig.nasa.gov VIA oig.nasa.gov) Short & Sweet — Thunder from down under (abc.net.au) (abc.net.au) (southernlaunch.space) — JAXA’s SLIM survives third lunar night (japantimes.co.jp) This Week in Spaceflight History — May 9, 1963: Launch of West Ford 2 (PDF: orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov VIA orbi…
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Episode 457: DOWNLINK--Jeff Williams, Exum Instruments
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Spaceflight News — Voyager is communicative! (blogs.nasa.gov) — ESA debris removal mission finds a new target (satellitetoday.com) Short & Sweet — China releases a lunar landing update (spacenews) — TESS enters safe mode… again (nasa.gov) Questions, Comments, Corrections — Dennis O: SOFIA clarifications (discord.com) (youtube.com) — VAXheadroom sho…
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Episode 456: Now With Trailer
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Spaceflight News — Lunar buggy selection (spacenews.com) (PDF: sam.gov VIA sam.gov) (twitter.com/DubnHG1) (nikkei.com) Short & Sweet — Dragonfly mission officially confirmed (nasa.gov) — Mars Sample Revamp (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (spaceflightnow.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections — Unc Willy: Cape launch complexes (discord.com) This Week…
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Episode 455: Cabbage Ditch
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Spaceflight News — Last Delta IV heavy (spacenews.com) (americaspace.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (PDF: ulalaunch.com) (arstechnica.com) Short & Sweet — Relativity Space wins contract (spacenews) — Japan secures a moon landing (spacenews) — Max Space Modules (spacenews) Questions, Comments, Corrections — Csaba via Discord: SOIR means "evening" in Fre…
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Episode 454: Expendable Launchpad
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Spaceflight News — Broken records and Starship’s near future (nasaspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) Short & Sweet — New Shepard Plans Crewed Flight (spacenews.com) — Lunar Rover Mk 2 (spacenews.com) This Week in Spaceflight History — April 11, 2006: Arrival of Venus Express at Venus (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: sci.esa.int VIA sci.…
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Spaceflight News — Orbital Reef Rundown (nature.com) (PDF: star.spaceops.org VIA star.spaceops.org) (genesisesi.com) — Artemis 3 now has 3 experiments (nasa.gov) (hou.usra.edu) Short & Sweet — A Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine flies for first time (HT Andrew Z: autoevolution.com) — A Nascent Solution For Voyager 1 (spacenews.com) This Week in Spa…
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Episode 452: Sticky PEZ
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Spaceflight News — Starship IFT-3 (spacenews.com) (twitter.com) (youtu.be) Short & Sweet — Euclid spacecraft addresses ice-buildup on optics (asdnews.com) — Ariane 6 coming together (esa.int) — Soyuz aborts at the pad (spacenews.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections — From the intro: launch escape slide (youtube.com) This Week in Spaceflight Histor…
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Episode 451: DOWNLINK--Prof. Dante Lauretta
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Interview — Professor Dante Lauretta — The Asteroid Hunter: A Scientist’s Journey to the Dawn of our Solar System (hachettebookgroup.com) — facebook.com/AZAstrobiology — threads.net/@azastrobiology — instagram.com/azastrobiology — Thanks to Grand Central Publishing (twitter.com/GrandCentralPub) (instagram.com/grandcentralpub)…
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