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Episode 200: Bicentepisode

Episode 200: Bicentepisode

FromThe Orbital Mechanics Podcast


Episode 200: Bicentepisode

FromThe Orbital Mechanics Podcast

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Length:
35 minutes
Released:
Mar 5, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

This week in SF history— 5 March, 1931. Birth of Jerrie Cobb (wikipedia.org)— March, 1931. Ruth Rowland Nichols set the women's world altitude record. (wikipedia.org)Spaceflight news— DM-1! — Globe plushie (celestialbuddies.com) — Docking (arstechnica.com) (twitter.com/SpaceflightNow) (youtube.com) — David Saint-Jacques and Oleg Kononenko entering Crew Dragon capsule for 1st time (twitter.com/SpaceflightNow) — Were Super Dracos installed? (space.stackexchange.com)Short & Sweet— Spaceport America hopes to see crewed Virgin Galactic space flights (kob.com)— Mars lander InSight encounters trouble while preparing to dig (futurism.com)— Beresheet update (spacenews.com) (planetary.org)Questions, comments, corrections— Chairboy: Hypergolics correction (twitter.com/chairboy/)— RPG night (patreon.com)— Congrats to Roisin and Li! They won Falcon Heavy models (drive.google.com)
Released:
Mar 5, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

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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.