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Links and Show Notes: Support Liftoff with a Relay FM Membership Mac Power Users #524: Photographing the Stars, with Andrew Burwell - Relay FM Mac Observatory InSight to try to push mole into Martian surface - SpaceNews.com A Year of Surprising Science From NASA's InSight Mars Mission | NASA Publications | Science – NASA's InSight Mars Lander Delay seems likely as parachute problems plague European Mars lander | Ars Technica Boeing didn’t perform full end-to-end test of Starliner - Orlando Sentinel William Gerstenmaier joins SpaceX, and that’s a really big deal | Ars Technica An Orbital Rendezvous Demonstrates a Space Junk Solution - The New York Times This 'hot Jupiter' alien planet is dancing with death with its 18-hour year | Space China’s Rover Finds Layers of Surprise Under Moon’s Far Side - The New York Times Sunspots and Stranded Whales: A Bizarre Correlation - The New York Times Final Test of Orion Motor Critical to Astronaut Safety a Success | NASA SLS debut slips to April 2021, KSC teams working through launch sims - NASASpaceFlight.com NASA’s next science missions will head for Venus, Io, or Triton - The Verge One of NASA’s greatest mathematicians, Katherine Johnson, has died | Ars Technica Liftoff #48: Hidden Figures - Relay FM Julius Montgomery, Who Broke a Space-Age Race Barrier, Dies at 90 - The New York Times