Liftoff

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Liftoff was a podcast about space, the universe, and everything. You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to understand the major developments as explained by enthusiastic space fans Stephen Hackett an... more

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September 28, 201881: Lasers Are the Best
From a Californian satellite and the retirement of the Delta II to Hayabusa and Opportunity updates, it's been a busy couple of weeks. Plus, a review of Hulu's The First.
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Links and Show Notes Support Liftoff with a Relay FM Membership Silent Opportunity Mars Rover Spotted from Space (Photo) Brown announces California plan to launch satellite to track climate change - SFChronicle.com Trump administration sees a 7-degree rise in global temperatures by 2100 - The Washington Post NASA Launching Advanced Laser to Measure Earth’s Changing Ice | NASA Watch the end of an era as the last flight of a Delta II takes off - The Verge Leftover Delta 2 rocket to go on display at Kennedy Space Center – Spaceflight Now Engineers say goodbye to society-changing Delta 2 rocket – Spaceflight Now What It Feels Like To Get Hit By Falling Space Junk Ungeniused - Relay FM Military’s primary launch provider picks Blue Origin’s new engine for future rocket - The Verge Japan successfully lands two small rovers on asteroid Ryugu - SpaceFlight Insider Hayabusa2 Lands Two Rovers on Asteroid Ryugu - The New York Times HAYABUSA2@JAXA on Twitter: "Rover-1B succeeded in shooting a movie on Ryugu’s surface! The movie has 15 frames captured on September 23, 2018 from 10:34 - 11:48 JST. Enjoy ‘standing’ on the surface of this asteroid! [6/6]… https://t.co/UzMGiDzFO2" Meet Yusaku Maezawa, the first private passenger to take SpaceX’s BFR around the moon | TechCrunch Watch The First Online at Hulu
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54min
September 11, 201880: Little Caesars Mars Probe
Recent space news is all weird: Elon Musk's questionable podcast appearance, NASA looking into selling naming rights on its hardware, and a leak on the ISS.
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Links and Show Notes NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Takes First Picture of Distant Rock It Will Visit - The New York Times The Air Force is determining ‘the appropriate process’ for Elon Musk smoking pot - The Verge Joe Rogan Experience #1169 - Elon Musk - YouTube SpaceX BFR Interplanetary Spaceship To Have First 'Hopping' Tests In Late 2019 Orion's third flight will haul two pieces of a space station to lunar orbit | The Planetary Society NASA updates Lunar Gateway plans – NASASpaceFlight.com Watch NASA test Orion's parachutes by dropping it from a plane Product placement may help power NASA’s next big space mission - The Verge Bradley Chubb's Gameday Jacket Chubb's endorsement deal means candy bars and a dope jacket | Mile High Sports Ungeniused #60: The Cola Wars and New Coke - Relay FM Ungeniused #61: The Coca-Cola Company - Relay FM ((Charles Fishman)) on Twitter: Eye of Florence via GOES16 Kristen Walbolt on Twitter: Florence Rainfall NASA on Twitter: Trouble Brewing in the Atlantic NASA on Twitter: Florence from ISS Leak detected on International Space Station, crew in no danger - SpaceFlight Insider How was the exact location of the recent ISS air leak found? - SpaceFlight Insider Russian space chief vows to find “full name” of technician who caused ISS leak | Ars Technica News | Martian Skies Clearing over Opportunity Rover NASA says it wants to save the Mars Opportunity rover, but some close to the mission doubt it - The Verge
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August 28, 201879: The Final Bridge to Crewed Flight
NASA is inching toward crewed flights, with its Mobile Launcher Platform coming together and cis-lunar Gateway plans coming together, all while SpaceX and Boeing races to complete its crewed hardware. Elsewhere, Spitzer celebrates 15 years in space and OSIRIS-REx has spotted its target.
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Links and Show Notes Support Liftoff with a Relay FM Membership One step closer: SpaceX installs crew access arm in lead up to first crewed flights - SpaceFlight Insider SLS mobile launch platform to go on the move this week – Spaceflight Now Orion elements coming together for EM-1 – NASASpaceFlight.com NASA’s planning to send people back to the Moon’s surface in about a decade - The Verge News | 15 Years in Space for NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope News | 15 of Spitzer's Greatest Discoveries From 15 Years in Space NASA’s asteroid-sampling spacecraft spies its target for the first time - The Verge NASA's cosmic blunder: the Apollo 11 sample bag that went to the Moon in 1969 ended up at a public auction
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38min
August 14, 201878: Shed Some Sunlight on It
The Parker Solar Probe is on its way to study our sun, as New Horizons is exploring what is at the outmost reaches of its influence on the solar system.
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Links and Show Notes 📡 Become a Relay FM Member! 📡 NASA assigns astronauts to first commercial crew missions - SpaceNews.com Astronomers discover a nearby free-range planet with incredible magnetism | Astronomy.com Parker Solar Probe | NASA Parker Solar Probe NASA successfully launched a spacecraft that will study the Sun’s atmosphere - The Verge NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Is Named for Him. 60 Years Ago, No One Believed His Ideas About the Sun. - The New York Times Liftoff #6: The Sun - Relay FM
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43min
August 01, 201877: Belly Flop Situation
What goes around, comes around: The James Webb Telescope, water on Mars and the Space Force are all back in the news.
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Links and Show Notes Why NASA is struggling to get its most powerful space telescope off the ground - The Verge James Webb Space Telescope: Who Should Pay for Mistakes? - The Atlantic NASA - Ten Inventions Created for James Webb Space Telescope Approved Liquid Water on Mars! Really for Real This Time (Probably) | The Planetary Society Saturn and Mars Make Closest Approaches in 2018 | NASA Radar evidence of subglacial liquid water on Mars | Science NASA weighs delaying WFIRST to fund JWST overrun - SpaceNews.com Trump’s Space Force Will Have to Wait - The Atlantic Pentagon not waiting for Congress to create space force: report | TheHill Eight Logos for Trump’s Space Force, From Milton Glaser and More - Bloomberg Trump’s Space Force Will Have to Wait - The Atlantic Pentagon not waiting for Congress to create space force: report | TheHill Eight Logos for Trump’s Space Force, From Milton Glaser and More - Bloomberg Amazon.com: The Calculating Stars: A Lady Astronaut Novel eBook: Mary Robinette Kowal: Kindle Store
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35min
July 03, 201876: Talking Curiosity with Emily Lakdawalla
Jason and Stephen are joined by Emily Lakdawalla to discuss her new book, The Design and Engineering of Curiosity: How the Mars Rover Performs Its Job.
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Guest Starring:
Emily Lakdawalla
Links and Show Notes The Design and Engineering of Curiosity: How the Mars Rover Performs Its Job
Emily's new book about the Curiosity rover.
Emily Lakdawalla (@elakdawalla) | Twitter Snapshots from Space | The Planetary Society The New Screen Savers 160 Ancient Organic Matter Found on Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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40min
June 19, 201875: Not a Guy, a Box
Jason and Stephen talk about President Trump's call for a Space Force, then Opportunity's struggle against a Martian dust storm and Peggy Whitson's retirement from NASA.
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Links and Show Notes McMoon: How the Earliest Images of the Moon Were so Much Better than we Realised – World of Indie Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) Overview Bridenstine emphasizes partnerships with industry to achieve NASA goals - SpaceNews.com President Donald J. Trump is Achieving a Safe and Secure Future in Space Trump: ‘We are going to have the Space Force’ - SpaceNews.com How Exactly Do You Establish a Space Force? - The Atlantic Eric Berger on Twitter: "More from Scott Pace on the Trump administration's priorities in space with regard to national security.… " News | Opportunity Hunkers Down During Dust Storm News | NASA Mars Rovers Braving Severe Dust Storms NASA Encounters the Perfect Storm for Science – NASA’s Mars Exploration Program Astronaut Peggy Whitson retires from NASA - SpaceFlight Insider Silver Snoopy award - Wikipedia
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34min
June 05, 201874: Scientific Research and Glory
Jeff Bezos, Planet 9 and China's space station plans are all in the news, then Stephen and Jason remember Alan Bean and Donald Peterson.
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Links and Show Notes The curious case of the Apollo 4 Earth images | The Planetary Society Jeff Bezos and his Blue Origin space venture go all in on the moon – GeekWire Jeff Bezos details his moon colony ambitions | TechCrunch Where Is ‘Planet Nine’ Already? - The Atlantic China just invited the world to its space station | Ars Technica With a successful second powered flight, Virgin Galactic could take paying customers to space in a year Alan Bean Family Obituary Statement | NASA Aviator, Apollo Astronaut, Artist: Alan Bean passes away at 86 - SpaceFlight Insider Liftoff #17: Space Stations: Totally Not Obsessed - Relay FM Skylab 3 - Wikipedia NASA Remembers Shuttle Astronaut Don Peterson | NASA Spacewalk During Maiden Voyage of Shuttle Challenger | NASA
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51min
May 22, 201873: No Party Beyond the Event Horizon
Jason talks about launching from the west coast of the United States, then Stephen takes the new SLS SEGMENT out for a spin before they discuss black holes.
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Links and Show Notes Tiny, Mars-Bound Satellite Snaps Its First Image of Earth and the Moon NASA's planet-hunting TESS spacecraft snaps its first photo Tom Wolfe, 88, ‘New Journalist’ With Electric Style and Acid Pen, Dies - The New York Times Schedule for First SLS Core Stage Still Sliding – NASASpaceFlight.com Liftoff #20: The Lifecycle of our Sun: Like a M&M - Relay FM Lecture 20: Black Holes Black Holes: Crash Course Astronomy #33 - YouTube Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Commonwealth Fund Book Program) Reprint, Kip Thorne, Stephen W. Hawking - Amazon.com Interstellar (2014) - IMDb
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44min
May 08, 201872: Into the Black
InSight is headed to Mars, the SLS Segment has a name, and Jason and Stephen read Into the Black, by Rowland White.
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Links and Show Notes NASA cancels lunar rover, shifts focus to commercial moon landers – Spaceflight Now NASA's InSight Mars Lander - NASA Mars Why NASA is launching a spacecraft to Mars to feel the planet as it rumbles - The Verge Instruments | InSight - NASA Mars JPL | Cubesat | MarCO Into the Black: The Extraordinary Untold Story of the First Flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia and the Astronauts Who Flew Her: Rowland White, Richard Truly: 9781501123634: Amazon.com: Books 'Into the Black': Book Recounts Untold Story of 1st Space Shuttle Flight STS-1 Columbia Cargo Bay - Missing Tiles
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55min

FAQs about Liftoff:

How many episodes does Liftoff have?

The podcast currently has 172 episodes available.