Jason and Stephen catch up on some of the latest space news, including classic NASA design specs, the new Boeing Starliner, a year-long mission to the International Space Station, and new pictures from Pluto.
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Links and Show Notes Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond: Gene Kranz: 9781439148815: Amazon.com: Books The First Men on the Moon: The Apollo 11 Lunar Landing Did an astronaut enter space? Get a notification! by alexander - IFTTT I'll wait, my dear, till it's my turn - All this NOAA's SciJinks :: What causes tides? Reissue of the 1975 NASA Graphics Standards Manual. by Jesse Reed & Hamish Smyth — Kickstarter NASA on Twitter: "Remember the worm? Take a look back at our 1976 styleguide @NASAHistory dug from our archive: http://t.co/Mk1WkdSxzx http://t.co/cwo16Oqogw" Enter the Starliner: Boeing names its commercial spaceship | Spaceflight Now Boeing Revamps Production Facility for Starliner Flights | NASA SpaceX Pad Abort Test - YouTube Pad Abort Test | Point of View - YouTube SpaceX shows off snazzy Dragon capsule for manned missions One Year Crew | NASA Twins Study | NASA Scott Kelly (@StationCDRKelly) | Twitter Scott Kelly (@stationcdrkelly) • Instagram photos and videos NASA | Human Research Program - How Astronauts are Affected by Space Exploration Space Stress: How 1-Year Mission Is Studying Astronaut Health Kelly takes command of International Space Station - SpaceFlight Insider Soyuz TMA-16M trio return back to Earth | NASASpaceFlight.com Pluto: New images from New Horizons. Newest Pluto pictures show what may be huge blocks of ice | The Seattle Times