Stephen and Jason talk the news, from blackholes to Beresheet, and spacesuits to backronyms. Then, a bit about the Crew Dragon anomaly.
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Links and Show Notes: Support Liftoff with a Relay FM Membership SpaceX's Center Core Booster for Falcon Heavy Rocket Is Lost at Sea | Space International Conference on Environmental Systems New details emerge about Titan's methane lakes - SpaceFlight Insider ACRONYM: Acronym CReatiON for You and Me (PDF) GitHub: ACRONYM (Acronym CReatiON for You and Me) The Incomparable | Turn Left at the Asteroid (Episode 453) Software Command to Fix Faulty Sensor Doomed Beresheet | The Planetary Society David Copperfield’s Secrets - The Technology Behind His Greatest Illusions - Are Locked in a Vault That Just Crash-Landed on the Moon Did NASA Experiment Survive on Failed Israeli Moon Lander? Black Hole Image Makes History; NASA Telescopes Coordinate Observation | NASA Exploring Black Holes | National Science Foundation Seeing a black hole with half a ton of hard drives - Six Colors Katie Bouman: The woman behind the first black hole image - BBC News How to take a picture of a black hole | Katie Bouman - YouTube The black hole image and Katie Bouman: the sexist backlash against her, explained - Vox Here’s what we know, and what we don’t, about the Crew Dragon accident | Ars Technica SpaceX turned to fast-igniting fuel for its capsule escape system. That could be part of the accident probe - Los Angeles Times