Jake and Anthony are joined by Brendan Byrne, of WMFE and Are We There Yet?, to talk about watching spaceships return to Earth, talking to astronauts, a change of leadership at Blue Origin, and what’s been up in the Florida space scene of late.

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• Brendan Byrne on X: “What a sight! Crew-6 coming in hot over Orlando. First time seeing that for me–pretty incredible!”
• Jake Robins on X: “SpaceX Dragon #Crew6 returning home. Came screaming right over top of my house here in Yucatán.”
• A space for artistic inspiration with veteran astronaut Nicole Stott
• Private space station astronaut John Shoffner speaks with WMFE from orbit
• Jeff Bezos finally got rid of Bob Smith at Blue Origin | Ars Technica
• Jeff Bezos Announces Plans To Build, Launch Rockets From Cape Canaveral : NPR
• NASA’s Psyche Moves Toward Liftoff – Psyche Mission
• Tamaliens

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Jake and Anthony are joined by Alec Maestas, OSIRIS-REx Systems Engineer and Real-Time Operations, to talk about the asteroid sample return mission on the eve(ish) of sample arrival.

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• OSIRIS-REx Mission
• OSIRIS-REx team completes final test before asteroid sample delivery - OSIRIS-REx Mission
• NASA gears up for return of OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample - SpaceNews
• NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is now on its way to asteroid Bennu - The Verge
• Stunning images show NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft stirring up rocks on an asteroid - The Verge
• NASA’s OSIRIS-REx was so good at grabbing asteroid rocks that they’re overflowing - The Verge
• NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe successfully stores small sample of asteroid rocks in its belly - The Verge

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Jake and Anthony check in on human spaceflight with a bit of a roundup—Axiom-3, Virgin Galactic, Blue Origin, SpaceX, and more.

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• Episode 124 - Accidental Cadence - YouTube
• Sara Mauskopf on X: “Companies that raised money in 2021 trying to raise again today”
• Sara Mauskopf on X: “When you’re in the arena trying stuff and then some of it doesn’t work”
• Sara Mauskopf on X: “Aaron Rodgers after the opening drive”
• ‘Galactic 04’ Mission Marks Virgin Galactic’s Fifth Spaceflight in Five Months | Virgin Galactic
• Virgin Galactic’s president explains how VSS Unity is now flying frequently | Ars Technica
• A year after New Shepard’s accident, Blue Origin may return to flight next month | Ars Technica
• Axiom Space names crew for third private astronaut mission to ISS - SpaceNews
• Vladimir Putin meets North Korea's Kim Jong-un at Russia's Vostochny Cosmodrome spaceport for 5-hour summit | Space

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Jake and Anthony are joined by Loren Grush of Bloomberg to talk about her new book, The Six: The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts.

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• Off-Nominal - YouTube
• Episode 123 - An Exciting Time (with Loren Grush) - YouTube
• The Six | Book by Loren Grush | Official Publisher Page | Simon & Schuster
• The Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy: a conversation with my parents who worked the accident - The Verge

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Jake and Anthony talk about recent financial news in the world of spaceflight and add some predictions to the 2023 list.

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• Episode 122 - Space.com Bubble - YouTube
• Off-Nominal Campaign for Relay FM/St. Jude
• Relay FM for St. Jude - St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
• Virgin Galactic forecasts limited revenues from initial commercial flights - SpaceNews
• Virgin Galactic launches first tourist flight to space, Galactic 02
• Virgin Galactic (SPCE) Q2 2023 earnings report
• Astra lays off, reassigns employees as it refocuses on satellite propulsion - SpaceNews
• Chris Kemp unplugged—Astra’s CEO dishes on the space company’s struggles | Ars Technica
• Peter Beck on X: “A Rocket Lab production line.”
• Momentus cuts workforce while evaluating strategic options - SpaceNews

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Jake and Anthony are joined by Mark Panning from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and PI of the Farside Seismic Suite to talk about the Chandrayaan-3 and Luna-25 Moon landings and what we can look forward too from CLPS coming soon.

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• Luna-25 crashes into moon after orbit maneuver - SpaceNews
• Chandrayaan-3: India becomes fourth country to land on the moon - SpaceNews
• ISRO on X: “Here is how the Lander Imager Camera captured the moon's image just prior to touchdown.”
• ISRO on X: “Chandrayaan-3 Mission: The image captured by the Landing Imager Camera after the landing. It shows a portion of Chandrayaan-3's landing site. Seen also is a leg and its accompanying shadow. Chandrayaan-3 chose a relatively flat region on the lunar surface”
• NASA Selects New Science Investigations for Future Moon Deliveries

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Jake and Anthony are joined by Karan Kunjur, Co-Founder of K2 Space, to talk about what they’re building, and what it means to build for a post-Starship future.

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• Episode 120 - Big Dumb Satellites (with Karan Kunjur) - YouTube
• Space-based solar power is not a thing – Casey Handmer's blog
• New Solar Arrays to Power NASA’s International Space Station Research | NASA
• Gravitics

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Jake and Anthony are joined by space artist and illustrator Paul Fjeld to talk about his career and to hear some stories from interesting projects and programs he’s worked on.

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• Episode 119 - Don’t Train for the Nominal Shit (with Paul Fjeld) - YouTube
• List of Experiences -Paul Fjeld
• The Space Review: Saving Skylab the top secret way

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Anthony is joined by Jonathan Vaughters, Founder and CEO of EF Education-EasyPost, and Eric Berger, Senior Space Editor at Ars Technica, to talk about space and cycling, who knows in what amounts. Sorry, Jake.

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• Episode 118 - Experienced Drunk Idiots (with Jonathan Vaughters and Eric Berger) - YouTube
• Watch Tour de France: Unchained | Netflix Official Site
• Enter the Slipstream (2023) - IMDb
• Kerbal Space Program – Create and Manage Your Own Space Program
• Manayunk Wall: The climb every American bike racer knew - Velo
• The legend of the Manayunk Wall

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• One-Way Ticket: Nine Lives on Two Wheels: Vaughters, Jonathan: Amazon.com: Books
• Opinion | How to Get Doping Out of Sports - The New York Times

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Jake and Anthony are joined by Dr. Phil Metzger to talk about his research into launch and landing pad debris.

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• Episode 117 - ⅃ L (with Dr. Phil Metzger) - YouTube
• NASA’s Recommendations to Space-Faring Entities: How to Protect and Preserve the Historic and Scientific Value of U.S. Government Lunar Artifacts (PDF, 3.3 MB)
• NASA drafts guidelines to preserve Apollo moon landing sites | collectSPACE
• Dr. Phil Metzger on Twitter: “Thanks so much to the people who sent samples and pictures/videos of the particulate falling 5-6 miles from the Starship launch pad. We have analyzed the particle sizes and shapes and got an unexpected result.”
• Dr. Phil Metzger on Twitter: “Partial results on the analysis of the ejecta from the SpaceX Starship launch. The visible and infrared spectra of the fine particles that rained down on Port Isobel do not match the concrete or the Fondag that was picked up on the beach.”
• Dr. Phil Metzger on Twitter: “I guess I need to do simulations to see how sand can fly 5 miles from a Starship launch. I did the analysis for NASA for Mars landings, and the size of particle that went farthest in that super-thin Martian air was pea gravel (~3 mm diameter) and it only goes 725 meters.”
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