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Links and Show Notes Support Liftoff with a Relay FM Membership SpaceX SAOCOM 1A Launch from Santa Monica on Vimeo Jason Snell on Twitter: "Nice to take a dog walk and see a space launch… " RIP, MASCOT: Hopping Lander Meets Its End on Asteroid Ryugu Cassini’s last discoveries: Saturn’s innermost ring rains dust - Vox October 05, 2018 | Science NASA’s Commercial Crew Program Target Test Flight Dates – Commercial Crew Program First Orion service module ready for shipment to the U.S. - SpaceNews.com The Orion spacecraft may carry more than NASA missions to the Moon | Ars Technica Hubble Space Telescope Apparently in 'Safe Mode' After Gyroscope Failure Wayne Hale on Twitter: "To repair Hubble you need a trained repair crew in a mid high LEO with a spacecraft... Canada offers help for Hubble - The Globe and Mail Curiosity Rover Activates Backup 'Brain' on Mars Astronomers may have discovered the first moon ever found outside our Solar System - The Verge