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Liftoff episodes

February 12, 201991: Shoot and Hope
Jason and Stephen catch up on the news, then talk about the Pioneer and Ranger programs.
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Links and Show Notes: Support Liftoff with a Relay FM Membership Kennedy Space Center Honors Day of Remembrance | NASA The Found Footage That Provides a Whole New Look at the Apollo 11 Moon Landing | Vanity Fair Apollo 11 (2019) - Official Trailer | First Moon Landing - YouTube 7 Days Out | Netflix Official Site Eric Berger on Twitter about Commercial Crew APOD: 2019 February 11 - New Data: Ultima Thule Surprisingly Flat New Horizons' Evocative Farewell Glance at Ultima Thule NASA puts a key satellite in place for its Mars 2020 mission MAVEN Spacecraft Shrinking its Orbit to Prepare for Mars 2020 Rover | NASA Mars One goes bankrupt as reality catches up to the doomed space scam | TechCrunch Mars One Takeover Approved by InFin Shareholders - Press Releases - News - Mars One The Pioneer Missions | NASA Ranger | Science Mission Directorate
43 min
January 29, 201990: My Feet Belong on the Ground
This fortnight, Jason and Stephen mark NASA's Day of Remembrance, discuss layoffs at two private space companies and wish for a mission to Uranus.
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Links and Show Notes Support Liftoff with a Relay FM Membership Elon Musk Interview: Why the Starship Is Built of Stainless Steel SpaceX’s new test rocket topples over thanks to strong Texas winds - The Verge After Thursday test firing, SpaceX may be a month from commercial crew launch | Ars Technica After government re-opened, SpaceX sought two Falcon Heavy permits | Ars Technica Here it is, the high resolution photo of MU69 We've all been waiting for. - Universe Today Bad Astronomy | How long is a day on Saturn? | SYFY WIRE Thomas Zurbuchen on Twitter News | Rover Team Beaming New Commands to Opportunity on Mars ‘This Could Be the End’ for NASA’s Mars Opportunity Rover - The New York Times Virgin Galactic Lays Off Staff as Test Program Continues NASA’s 2019 Day of Remembrance Was Postponed, but Remembrances Continue Nonetheless – SpacePolicyOnline.com Space Mirror Memorial at Kennedy Space Center Amazon.com: Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew eBook: Michael D. Leinbach, Jonathan H. Ward, Robert Crippen: Kindle Store Amazon.com: Watch The Challenger Disaster | Prime Video Liftoff #9: The Space Shuttle - Relay FM
46 min
January 15, 201989: Some Time at the Taco Bar
China has big plans for the moon and SpaceX has a new test vehicle. Oh, and things got weird with Russia.
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Links and Show Notes Support Liftoff with a Relay FM Membership Watch a Chinese probe land on the far side of the Moon - The Verge China’s lunar lander successfully sprouts cotton on the Moon - The Verge China unveils follow-up lunar exploration missions - Xinhua | English.news.cn The new space race pits the U.S. against China. The U.S. is losing badly. - The Washington Post NASA delays SpaceX commercial crew test flight to February - SpaceNews.com This is SpaceX’s very first human crew - YouTube NASA's Johnson Space Center employees expected to protest government shutdown Tuesday - HoustonChronicle.com NASA rescinds invitation to Russian space agency chief to visit US after backlash | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Bridenstine and Rogozin speak by phone after canceled visit - SpaceNews.com SpaceX's 'Starship' Hopper Prototype Could Make 1st Test Flight in Weeks, Elon Musk Says SpaceX Finishes Building 'Starship' Hopper Prototype (Photo) Susanne Auer 🇪🇺 on Twitter: ""How I look on Tinder vs Real Life" - #SpaceX Rocket Edition… " SpaceX to lay off 10% of its workforce - Los Angeles Times Eric Berger on Twitter: "Some notes regarding SpaceX cuts..." Rocket Report: Blue nears flight, India to double up, Musk’s Starship love | Ars Technica
44 min
January 02, 201988: Pixely Peanut
China's latest lunar mission is about to touchdown on the far side of the moon, and New Horizons has completed its flyby of Ultima Thule.
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Links and Show Notes Support Liftoff with a Relay FM Membership Chang'e-4: China mission primed for landing on Moon's far side - BBC News NASA waits for giant SLS fuel tank to arrive in Alabama for testing | al.com Chasing Shadows for a Glimpse of a Tiny World Beyond Pluto - The New York Times Finally! New Horizons has a second target | The Planetary Society New Horizons: APL
49 min
December 18, 201887: Apollo 8
In December 1968, Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders became the first human beings to travel to the moon, circling our nearest neighbor and making history while doing so.
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Our Apollo Episodes:
Apollo 1
Apollo 4 & 5
Apollo 6
Apollo 7
Apollo 8
Apollo 9
Apollo 10
Apollo 11
Apollo 12
Apollo 13
Apollo 14
Apollo 15
Apollo 16
Apollo 17
Apollo 8 | NASA Apollo 8: First Around the Moon NASA Releases New Earthrise Simulation Video | NASA A First Glimpse of Our Magnificent Earth, Seen From the Moon - The New York Times Apollo 8: A Story of Christmas Around the Moon - YouTube ABC's Apollo 8 Launch Coverage - YouTube Apollo 8 Mission Highlights - YouTube NASA Technical Note D-7080 (PDF) Apollo 8 Christmas Message - YouTube
38 min
December 04, 201886: Two-Tone Rocket
The end of 2018 is proving to be busy: InSight has landed, OSIRIS-REx has rendezvoused with Bennu, SpaceX is breaking records and the CLPS program is here, for what that's worth.
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Links and Show Notes Support Liftoff with a Relay FM Membership Watch Mars on National Geographic The HI-SEAS Mars Habitat Is Turning Into a Moon Simulation - The Atlantic Crewed flights to ISS resume with Soyuz MS-11 launch - SpaceFlight Insider NASA Astronaut Nick Hague Gets New Space Assignment After Scary Launch Abort SpaceX Falcon 9 launches SSO-A multi-sat mission – NASASpaceFlight.com Singed and sooty, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket still looked brilliant Monday | Ars Technica NASA Hears MarCO CubeSats Loud and Clear from Mars | NASA Mars New Home 'a Large Sandbox' | NASA NASA selects nine companies that will vie to put small landers on the Moon - The Verge Commercial Lunar Payload Services - CLPS - 80HQTR18R0011R - Federal Business Opportunities: Opportunities A congressman’s loss clouds the future of two demanding missions to Europa | Ars Technica
44 min
November 20, 2018 85: There's No E in 'Flight'
There was a false alarm concerning Opportunity, and drama about the SLS' future. That, and a conversation about Rocket Lab and a preview of InSight's landing.
Links and Show Notes Support Liftoff with a Relay FM Membership News | Kepler Telescope Bids 'Goodnight' with Final Commands NASA thought it got a signal from the silent Opportunity rover, but it broke our hearts again – BGR Elon Musk renames Big Falcon Rocket to ‘Starship’ - The Verge NASA may retire its new mega-rocket for SpaceX, Blue Origin launchers - Business Insider NASA’s Europa lander may be in jeopardy after the midterms - The Verge Rocket Lab performs first commercial launch - SpaceNews.com Rocket Lab’s Modest Launch Is Giant Leap for Small Rocket Business - The New York Times InSight Mission – NASA's InSight Mars Lander Videos | InSight Landing on Mars News | How NASA Will Know When InSight Touches Down Space Images | Curiosity Spotted on Parachute by Orbiter Liftoff (@liftoffpodcast) on Twitter
33 min
November 06, 201884: Emotions of Distant Galaxies
NASA says goodbye to two spacecraft and Stephen and Jason review First Man.
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Links and Show Notes Support Liftoff with a Relay FM Membership We decoded NASA’s messages to aliens by hand - YouTube How to decode the images on the Voyager Golden Record / Boing Boing Oct. 27 Gyro Update: NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Returns to Science | NASA Hubble Finds Smiling Face in a Hunt for Newborn Stars | NASA It's Over For Kepler. The Most Successful Planet Hunter Ever Built is Finally out of Fuel and Has Just Been Shut Down. - Universe Today Liftoff #30: Talking Kepler with Natalie Batalha - Relay FM TESS Overview Dawn Mission | News | NASA's Dawn Mission to Asteroid Belt Comes to End A Soyuz crew makes an emergency landing after rocket fails | Ars Technica Russian official says Soyuz rocket failure caused by an errant sensor | Ars Technica First Man (2018) - IMDb Buzz Aldrin Has Some Thoughts About 'First Man' and the Flag
1 hr
October 22, 201883: Apollo 7
In October 1968, Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walter Cunningham spent 11 days in space working the bugs out of the Apollo spacecraft on its first crewed mission. The vehicle performed perfectly; the crew did not.
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Links and Show Notes:
Our Apollo Episodes:
Apollo 1
Apollo 4 & 5
Apollo 6
Apollo 7
Apollo 8
Apollo 9
Apollo 10
Apollo 11
Apollo 12
Apollo 13
Apollo 14
Apollo 15
Apollo 16
Apollo 17
Apollo 7 (AS-205) | National Air and Space Museum Apollo 7: A Test of Spacecraft and Crew Apollo 7 Mission Overview - Lunar and Planetary Institute Apollo 7 - Internet Archive Apollo 7 | C-SPAN Video Gemini IX Crew Found 'Angry Alligator' in Earth Orbit | NASA How Did Head Colds Lead to Mutiny on Apollo 7? - YouTube Actifed Ad w/ Wally Schirra & Donn Eisele - YouTube
35 min
October 08, 201882: Hubble Trouble
Jason and Stephen discuss the latest Commercial Crew dates, and emerging issues with the Hubble Space Telescope, as well as exomoons and Jason's view of the latest SpaceX launch.
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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
58 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…