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Liftoff

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 and Jason Snell. Hosted by Jason Snell and Stephen Hackett.

Copyright: Copyright © 2019 Relay FM

Latest Episodes:

81: Lasers Are the Best Sep 28, 2018

Show notes

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

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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

80: Little Caesars Mars Probe Sep 11, 2018

Show notes

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

79: The Final Bridge to Crewed Flight Aug 28, 2018

Show notes

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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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

78: Shed Some Sunlight on It Aug 14, 2018

Show notes

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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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

77: Belly Flop Situation Aug 01, 2018

Show notes

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

76: Talking Curiosity with Emily Lakdawalla Jul 03, 2018

Show notes

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

75: Not a Guy, a Box Jun 19, 2018

Show notes

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

74: Scientific Research and Glory Jun 05, 2018

Show notes

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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StoryWorth: A new way to bring the family together.

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

73: No Party Beyond the Event Horizon May 22, 2018

Show notes

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

72: Into the Black May 08, 2018

Show notes

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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