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- Episode 30: The Millennium and Peregrine Falcons
Episode Links:
JAXA Hayabusa Mission Website
Pioneer 10 and 11 NASA Mission ArchivesNASA Pioneer Program HomepagePioneer 10 Website- Wayback Machine Internet Archive VersionThe Empire Strikes Back- Asteroid Field Scene
5 min - Episode 29: Where Is Everybody?
Episode Links:
The Drake Equation
Winston Churchill’s essay on alien life foundZookeepers, Alien Visitors, Or Simple LifeSir David GillTsiolkovsky - Russian Cosmism and Extraterrestrial Intelligence7 min - Episode 28: Gamma-rays, Gemstones, and the Fermi Space Telescope
Episode Links:
Fermi- Gamma-ray Space Telescope- NASA
Most Extreme Gamma-ray Blast EverFermi Observations of High-Energy Gamma-ray Emission (Paywall)NASA Press Release, Re-Naming Future Telescope MissionThunderstorms Beam Into Space- Infographic
NASA's Fermi Catches Thunderstorms Hurling Antimatter into SpaceNASA Budget Estimate for FY 2017 (Fermi mission on page 213)
Gamma-ray Astronomy Timeline- NASA
An Introduction to Gem Treatments- Gemological Institute of America
Gamma Knife Radiosurgery
6 min - Episode 27: The Spirit of Rovers Past
Episode Links:
Mars Exploration Rover- NASA PDF
Mars SunsetChallenges of Getting to MarsSpirit and Opportunity NASA WebsiteMars Exploration Rovers ComputersMars Mission LogSpirit Rover Rendering
6 min - Episode 26: The Not So Final Frontier
Episode Links:
Hypersonics Before the Shuttle- Part of the NASA Monographs in Aerospace History, Number 18, June 2000
NASA Armstrong Fact Sheet- X-15 Hypersonic Research ProgramThe X-15, the Pilot and the Space ShuttleStar Trek V: The Final Frontier IMDB
Armstrong Interview
Kraft Marshmallow Dispenser
Neptune In Depth- NASA
7 min - Episode 25: To the Edge of Space with the X-15
Episode Links:
Hypersonics Before the Shuttle- Part of the NASA Monographs in Aerospace History, Number 18, June 2000
NASA Armstrong Fact Sheet- X-15 Hypersonic Research ProgramThe X-15, the Pilot and the Space ShuttleSpaceX to Launch Secretive Robotic Spaceplane for US Air Force- Robin Seemangal
6 min - Episode 24: Fraunhofer Lines and a Side of Sideburns
Episode Links:
NASA Astronaut & Vice President Pence Announcement
Joseph von Fraunhofer Biography 1
Joseph von Fraunhofer Biography 2Skylab Links:
NASA Space Science Data ArchiveSkylab: A Guidebook, Ch. 5Skylab: A Guidebook, Ch. 4ATM Study Program- Final Report7 min - Episode 23: The Spacewalker
Episode Links:
Example of a John Ford Long Shot, how I imagine Stafford seeing Cernan's EVA
Johnson Space Center- Mission Transcript: Gemini IX
Johnson Space Center Oral History Project Edited Oral History Transcript7 min - Episode 22: Two Shuttles Walk into a Bar
Episode Links:
NASA- STS-40
NASA- STS-111iTunes- Big WIllie Style
6 min - Episode 21: The Wrath of the ATDA
Episode Links:
SpaceX Falcon 9 Information Page
This will give you an idea of how massive these vehicles are since they can look a little small during launch and landing.Falcon 9 Flight 1 Mission HighlightsGemini 9 Mission Audio
There is a ton of mission audio here, with the majority of the Gemini ATDA rendezvous taking place on track 3 "2795."Gemini 9 NASA Mission PageGemini IX Crew Found 'Angry Alligator' in Earth OrbitYou Only Live Twice- opening sequence
You Only Live Twice- IMDb8 min
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