Liftoff

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Liftoff episodes

December 05, 201761: Sleepover in Space
Elon Musk has been tweeting about payloads and Rocket Lab prepares for another launch. That, and Gemini 6, 7, 8 and 9.
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Links and Show Notes Elon Musk Discusses Sending His Tesla to Mars Orbit – 512 Pixels SpaceX will fly cargo to the space station on a used Falcon 9 rocket, NASA confirms - The Verge Rocket Lab sets launch window for next Electron launch - SpaceFlight Insider Rocket Lab | Space is now open for business | Rocket Lab Clipper Slipper | The Planetary Society After 37 years, Voyager 1 has fired up its trajectory thrusters | Ars Technica The Greatest Leap, Part 1: How the Apollo fire propelled NASA to the Moon | Ars Technica The Angry Alligator
50 min
November 21, 201760: Crumbs Are Bad
New spacecraft is being tested, and we had a weird visitor from outside the solar system. That, plus the first crewed Gemini missions (complete with secret beef sandwiches) this fortnight.
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Links and Show Notes First Fleet: NASA's Space Shuttle Program 1981-1986 by John A. Chakeres — Kickstarter Gravitational wave hunters have picked up signals from the lightest black holes yet - The Verge NASA Completes Review of SLS, Orion Deep Space Exploration Mission | NASA Stratolaunch tests all six engines on its massive rocket-launching plane - The Verge Sierra Nevada satisfied with Dream Chaser glide test - SpaceNews.com Dream Chaser Free Flight Test 2017 - YouTube First-known interstellar visitor is a bizarre, cigar-shaped asteroid | Ars Technica A one-of-a-kind supernova was seen exploding — over and over again - The Verge Nickname a Distant World
45 min
November 07, 201759: Kinda Bananas and Super Dangerous
SpaceX is returning to Launch Complex 40 and the GRACE mission is coming to an end while Dawn has a new lease on life. Then, discussion of the Gemini capsule and the two uncrewed launches of the program.
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Links and Show Notes SpaceX set to resume launches from Space Launch Complex 40 - SpaceFlight Insider SpaceX ties ULA’s annual launch record with 16th launch this year - SpaceNews.com SpaceX aims for late-December launch of Falcon Heavy | NASASpaceFlight.com News | Prolific Earth Gravity Satellites End Science Mission GRACE-FO Mass concentration (astronomy) - Wikipedia NASA is extending Dawn’s mission over Ceres for a second time - The Verge
35 min
October 24, 201758: Getting in on the Moon Money
Blue Origin is firing up its new rocket engine as Bigelow is talking about inflatable lunar stations. Then, the recent LIGO announcement and some background on Project Gemini.
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Links and Show Notes Blue Origin conducts first hot-fire test of BE-4 engine - SpaceFlight Insider Blue Origin just sent a jolt through the aerospace industry | Ars Technica Bigelow Aerospace wants to put an inflatable space habitat in orbit around the Moon - The Verge NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Blog | Planet Nine The Search for Planet Nine: Theory The Search for Planet Nine: Planet Nine: where are you? (part 1) Gravitational waves have let us see huge neutron stars colliding | New Scientist NASA Missions Catch First Light from a Gravitational-Wave Event | NASA
45 min
October 10, 201757: A Realistic View
LIGO is busy with gravitational waves, Elon Musk is busy talking about SpaceX's future and Mike Pence has his eye on the moon.
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Links and Show Notes The Space Review: Sputnik remembered: The first race to space (part 1) (page 1) A fourth gravitational wave has been detected - The Verge Elon Musk plans to put all of SpaceX’s resources into its Mars rocket - The Verge National Space Council calls for human return to the moon - SpaceNews.com We choose to go to the Moon and do the other things | The Planetary Society If Mike Pence wants to send NASA back to the Moon, he has to find funds - The Verge
48 min
September 26, 2017 56: A Guy and a Grease Pencil
This fortnight: damage to the Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico, a Mars sample return proposal and the final two Mercury flights.
Links and Show Notes Cassini Vanishes Into Saturn, Its Mission Celebrated and Mourned - The New York Times Goodbye Cassini - YouTube How Not to Land an Orbital Rocket Booster - YouTube What to expect from Elon Musk’s Mars colonization update this week - The Verge EGO-Virgo on Twitter: "A very exciting LIGO-Virgo Observing run draws to a close on the 25th of August - https://t.co/GWJXORx4KJ https://t.co/ilUKoCUx3P"
LIGO-Virgo
Puerto Rico's Arecibo Radio Telescope Suffers Hurricane Damage : The Two-Way : NPR NASA proposes rapid Mars sample return architecture - SpaceNews.com
30 min
September 12, 201755: Fireflies
Stephen and Jason are back to discuss the end of Cassini and Jim Bridenstine, who appears to be Trump's pick for NASA Administrator. After that, they journey into orbit with John Glenn and Scott Carpenter.
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Links and Show Notes How NASA kept the ISS flying while Harvey hit Mission Control - The Verge NASA's New Space Telescope Is in Harvey's Path - The Atlantic How NASA is preparing for Irma at its most important Florida spaceport - The Verge SpaceX launches first X-37B launch with a Falcon 9 | NASASpaceFlight.com Liftoff #46: Team Pluto on the March - Relay FM Lawsuit: Amazon sold eclipse glasses that cause “permanent blindness” | Ars Technica Cassini: The Grand Finale: Overview Your guide to Jim Bridenstine, the new nominee for NASA administrator | The Planetary Society Rubio, Nelson blast Trump’s NASA pick - POLITICO Who is Jim Bridenstine, the Climate Change Denier Trump Picked to Head NASA?
46 min
August 22, 2017 54: Live from the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse
Stephen and Jason both witnessed the 2017 total solar eclipse. They recorded throughout the event and sat down to compare notes the next day.
Links and Show Notes Eclipse and Transit Images - NASA Total Eclipse - Menan, Idaho, August 21 2017 - YouTube Eclipse Video by Stephen Carter
This video was shot at the State Park where Stephen viewed the eclipse.
28 min
August 15, 201753: More Sevens
This fortnight, 2014 MU69 comes into focus, SLS has a new paint job and Stephen and Jason talk about the two rockets used in Project Mercury and the first two crewed American spaceflights.
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Links and Show Notes New Horizons’ next target might be a binary pair – Spaceflight Now Chasing Shadows for a Glimpse of a Tiny World Beyond Pluto - The New York Times Function over form: NASA's Space Launch System gets a new paint job | The Planetary Society Membership - Relay FM Technicians working in the McDonnell White Room on the Mercury-crop - Project Mercury - Wikipedia IBM 701 - Wikipedia Liftoff #48: Hidden Figures - Relay FM Mercury-Redstone 3 - Wikipedia Mercury-Redstone 4 - Wikipedia Beyond Spaceship Earth | The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
44 min
August 01, 2017 52: Missed by Half an Inch
After going over some last-minute eclipse planning notes, Stephen and Jason start a new series looking at NASA's pre-shuttle crewed missions, starting with testing for Project Mercury and America's first astronauts.
Links and Show Notes
After going over some last-minute eclipse planning notes, Stephen and Jason start a new series looking at NASA's pre-shuttle crewed missions, starting with testing for Project Mercury and America's first astronauts.
Sharing an eclipse with kids | The Planetary Society Your Guide to the Great American Eclipse of 2017 | The Planetary Society Don't blindly trust companies selling solar eclipse glasses on Amazon - The Verge Solar Eclipse | South Menan Butte | Crater Adventures | Menan Idaho Restore Historic Mission Control by Space Center Houston — Kickstarter Dan Vergano on Twitter: "NASA releases summary of EM-1 decision to not fly people around the moon in 2019 that @BuzzFeedScience requested https://t.co/rkRO2RGhrP" NASA Internal Memo: EM-1 Crew Study Results Summary The Incomparable | Likeable Jerkability (Episode 326) Liftoff #36: Remembering John Glenn - Relay FM LIFE - Google Books
32 min

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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…