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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

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21: The Excitement Has Exploded May 24, 2016

Show notes

Jason and Stephen catch up some news, talk about some weird ways stars end and are then joined by Loren Grush, science reporter at The Verge to talk about commercial crew, inflatable space hotels and more.

This episode of Liftoff is sponsored by:

CuriosityStream: The world’s first, ad-free nonfiction streaming service. Use promo code RELAYFM to get two months free.
Luminos: A fantastic astronomy app, 10 years in the making! Now with an Apple Watch app for skygazing!

Guest Starring:

Links and Show Notes

Photos: Final space shuttle fuel tank moves through Los Angeles to museum – Spaceflight Now

The External Tank Has Arrived! What's Next for L.A. Space Shuttle Display

Spaceflight Now | STS-134 | Space shuttle Endeavour leaves LAX

Space Shuttle Atlantis Exhibit | Kennedy Space Center

OV-105 "Endeavour" | California Science Center

India launches mini space shuttle - BBC News

India's 1st Mini 'Space Shuttle' Test Launch in Pictures

China reveals design for planned Tiangong 3 space station - SpaceFlight Insider

TASS: Science & Space - Russia has no plans to deliver US astronauts to ISS after 2018 — official

Watch NASA Deploy First Expandable Habitat at Space Station | NASA

SN 2003fg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Progenitor IA supernova - Supernova - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Loren Grush (@lorengrush) | Twitter

Loren Grush - The Verge

Commercial Crew Program | NASA

Juno | NASA

Bigelow and ULA Partner to Launch Commercial Space Habitat in 2020 - Universe Today

Space in Videos - 2016 - 02 - ESA Euronews: Moon Village

20: The Lifecycle of our Sun: Like a M&M May 10, 2016

Show notes

After catching up Kepler news and the Mercury transit, Jason and Stephen talk about the lifecycle of our sun. Spoiler alert: things won't end well for Earth.

This episode of Liftoff is sponsored by:

CuriosityStream: The world’s first, ad-free nonfiction streaming service. Use promo code RELAYFM to get two months free.

Links and Show Notes

Briefing materials for the announcement of 1,284 Kepler planets | NASA

Worlds that could support life are found practically in the Sun’s backyard | Ars Technica

JCSAT-14 Mission in Photos | SpaceX

Three Camera Angles | Falcon 9 First Stage Landing on Droneship - YouTube

Cassini confirms methane sea on Titan - SpaceFlight Insider

Mercury Enters Spotlight on May 9 | NASA

Guide to the Mercury transit on May 9, 2016 - Slate

NASA's SDO Captures Mercury Transit Time-lapse - YouTube

Liftoff #6: The Sun - Relay FM

Introduction to Stars, Galaxies, & the Universe - Prof. Richard Pogge

HubbleSite - Picture Album: Nebulae: Planetary

19: Venus: The Pizza Planet Apr 25, 2016

Show notes

This fortnight, Jason and Stephen take a trip to Venus.

This episode of Liftoff is sponsored by:

Luminos: A fantastic astronomy app, 10 years in the making! Now with an Apple Watch app for skygazing!
CuriosityStream: The world’s first, ad-free nonfiction streaming service. Use promo code RELAYFM to get two months free.

Links and Show Notes

Bigelow Expandable Activity Module - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

NASA - Bigelow Expandable Activity Module

Bigelow and ULA Partner to Launch Commercial Space Habitat in 2020 - Universe Today

MOON - the most accurate lunar globe by Oscar Lhermitte and Kudu — Kickstarter

Comets may explain much about the weird brightness dips in Tabby's Star.

Behind the Scenes at The Pen Addict 200 – 512 Pixels

Venus - Overview | Planets - NASA Solar System Exploration

Why Venus Spins the Wrong Way - Scientific American

Observations and explorations of Venus - Wikipedia

Mariner 2 - Wikipedia

Venera - Wikipedia

Image of Venus from Venera 14

ESA Science & Technology: Venus Express' swansong experiment sheds light on Venus' polar atmosphere

Akatsuki (spacecraft) - Wikipedia

NASA Vision for Venus: HAVOC Airships | Video

Fix capitalism with floating cities on Venus says Charles Stross • The Register

Amazon.com: Saturn's Children eBook: Charles Stross: Kindle Store

NASA SLS — 18: The SLS Apr 11, 2016
Show notes

This fortnight, Jason and Stephen talk about rockets on drone ships, visiting space via virtual reality and NASA's next launch vehicle, the SLS.

This episode of Liftoff is sponsored by:

Relay FM Membership: With a Relay FM membership, you can directly support the hosts of your favorite shows — like this one!

Links and Show Notes

Liftoff on Twitter: "TWITTER POLL! Which NASA logo is better?"

NASA In-Space Manufacturing Logo Challenge | Freelancer

Liftoff #9: The Space Shuttle - Relay FM

International Space Station panoramic tour / ESA

Blue Origin launches same New Shepard spacecraft for third time – Spaceflight Now

Pluto may once have harbored liquid nitrogen lakes - SpaceFlight Insider

SpaceX on Twitter: "Falcon 9 first stage on our droneship in the Atlantic after propelling the Dragon spacecraft to the @Space_Station https://t.co/Cnnej7zEnt"

CRS-8 | First Stage Landing on Droneship - YouTube

Triangulation 244 Bill Atkinson | TWiT

Oculus Rift | Oculus

The Apollo 11 Experience | Apps | Oculus Share

Space Launch System | NASA

Space Launch System - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

NASA SLS Fact Sheet (PDF)

Constellation program - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Orion (spacecraft) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Orion Service Module - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Space Shuttle external tank - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Space Shuttle main engine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Solid fuel boosters, not liquid, will likely launch NASA’s giant SLS rocket | Ars Technica

Asteroid Redirect Mission - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Falcon Heavy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Is NASA Building a Huge Rocket to Nowhere? - Bloomberg

Orion and SLS: Time to rethink NASA's direction.

Orion test launch success: Will the Space Launch System succeed for crewed flight?

Space KSC: Wait 'Til Next Year

Polykaov on Mir — 17: Space Stations: Totally Not Obsessed Mar 28, 2016
Show notes

This fortnight, Jason and Stephen take a tour of the space stations that have graced Low-Earth orbit over the decades.

This episode of Liftoff is sponsored by:

Luminos: A fantastic astronomy app, 10 years in the making! Now with an Apple Watch app for skygazing!

Links and Show Notes

Valeri Polyakov spent 437 uninterrupted days on Mir.

Liftoff on Tumblr

Kepler Catches the Shock Breakout of a Supernova | NASA

Reissue of the 1975 NASA Graphics Standards Manual. by Jesse Reed & Hamish Smyth — Kickstarter

NASA Graphics Standards Manual PDF

Liftoff on Twitter: "TWITTER POLL! Which NASA logo is better?"

NASA: Commercial Crew firms ready to fly next year - SpaceFlight Insider

Did the New Russia-Europe Mars Mission Narrowly Escape a Launch Disaster?

Russia Actually Lights Rockets With an Overgrown Wooden Match

NASA Space Pen : snopes.com

NASA: Commercial Crew firms ready to fly next year - SpaceFlight Insider

Salyut programme - Wikipedia

Salyut 1 - Wikipedia

Soyuz 11 - Wikipedia

Salyut 7 - Wikipedia

Skylab - Wikipedia

Everything You Need to Know About Skylab | Astronotes

Skylab 2 - Wikipedia

Photo of Skylab
Don't miss the solar shade and lack of second square solar panel.

The Day Skylab Crashed to Earth: Facts About the First U.S. Space Station’s Re-Entry

Photo of Skylab dummy prank

Mir - Wikipedia

Shuttle–Mir Program - Wikipedia

Apollo–Soyuz Test Project - Wikipedia

Valeri Polyakov - Wikipedia

International Space Station - Wikipedia

International Space Station | NASA

Bigelow Aerospace's Inflatable Habitat Ready for Space Station Trip

Space Station Freedom - Wikipedia

Mir-2 - Wikipedia

Tiangong program - Wikipedia

Chinese large modular space station - Wikipedia

The Silly Reason the Chinese Aren’t Allowed on the Space Station | TIME

US-China Cooperation in Space: Is It Possible, and What's in Store?

Gravity (2013) - IMDb

Spacelab - Wikipedia

16: Like a Curtain in the Wind Mar 14, 2016

Show notes

This fortnight, Jason and Stephen travel the length of the Solar System to catch up on the news.

This episode of Liftoff is sponsored by:

Luminos: A fantastic astronomy app, 10 years in the making! Now with an Apple Watch app for skygazing!
Squarespace: Use code ‘LIFTOFF’ for 10% off your first purchase.

Links and Show Notes

The strangest moon in the Solar System — Starts With A Bang! — Medium

Alexander Kramer on Twitter: "@jsnell && @ismh , approx. sketch of Moon Draft 2016 and their owners. (@liftoffpodcast ) https://t.co/vw1lXO2Olv"

Mimas (moon) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Callisto (moon) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin plans to start taking tourists into space in 2018 | The Verge

Jeff Bezos Lifts Veil on His Rocket Company, Blue Origin - The New York Times

Why did Blue Origin leave so many female space reporters out of its big reveal? | The Verge

Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut: Mike Mullane: 9780743276832: Amazon.com: Books

Watch Us Epically Fail NASA’s Astronaut Test | WIRED

Hubble Team Breaks Cosmic Distance Record | NASA

Methane Snow on Pluto’s Peaks | NASA

Scientists think they’ve spotted clouds on Pluto, so they want to call it a planet again - Quartz

Dawn's First Year at Ceres: A Mountain Emerges | NASA

Dawn Mission | Dawn Home Page

ESA - Robotic Exploration of Mars: The ExoMars programme 2016-2018

NASA officially delays its next mission to Mars until 2018 | The Verge

NASA Targets May 2018 Launch of Mars InSight Mission | NASA

Comet Flyby Threw Mars’ Magnetic Field Into Chaos | NASA

How Do We Terraform Venus? - Universe Today

SE2016Mar09T.GIF (1197×1547)

An EPIC Eclipse : Natural Hazards

NASA - Total Solar Eclipse of 2017 Aug 21

Emily Lakdawalla on Twitter: "Says Jupiter to Earth: So you think your lunar eclipse the other day was cool? I had two simultaneous moon eclipses. https://t.co/WqiV8gtIlW"

Scott Kelly’s first days back on Earth — bananas, basketball, and Super Tuesday | The Verge

Robot or Not? - a podcast from The Incomparable

NASA JPL on Twitter: "Earlier today in a galaxy right here at home: #BB8 met our real robots and learned about @NASA's #JourneytoMars https://t.co/IMBPeK9hmS"

NASA JPL on Twitter: "These are the droids you're looking for. #BB8 visited our historic clean room where real @NASA space robots are made https://t.co/s1EItwoF3a"

We finally know how Mercury gets its dark gray color: an ancient carbon crust | The Verge

Remote sensing evidence for an ancient carbon-bearing crust on Mercury : Nature Geoscience : Nature Publishing Group

15: The Moon Draft Feb 29, 2016

Show notes

On this episode, Jason and Stephen pick their favorite solar system moons in an action-packed draft.

This episode of Liftoff is sponsored by:

Luminos: A fantastic astronomy app, 10 years in the making! Now with an Apple Watch app for skygazing!

Links and Show Notes

Virgin Galactic unveils new SpaceShipTwo vehicle that will replace lost spaceplane

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo crashes during test flight

“Upside Down & Inside Out” - OK Go Makes Art at Zero-G

Liftoff on Tumblr

Titan

Europa

Triton

Enceladus

Io

Charon

Iapetus

Ganymede

Titania

Phobos

14: Outside the Gates Feb 15, 2016

Show notes

During the last fortnight, humankind detected gravitational waves for the first time and Jason spent some time at NASA's Ames Research Center.

This episode of Liftoff is sponsored by:

Luminos: A fantastic astronomy app, 10 years in the making! Now with an Apple Watch app for skygazing!
Squarespace: Build it beautiful. Use code ‘LIFTOFF’ for 10% off.

Links and Show Notes

Liftoff on Tumblr

Visions of the Future

Gravitational Waves Detected, Confirming Einstein’s Theory - The New York Times

Scientists have finally found gravitational waves - YouTube

LSC - LIGO Scientific Collaboration

Administrator Bolden Discusses the 'State of NASA' - YouTube

NASA budget request for 2017.

First Details of the 2017 NASA Budget Request | The Planetary Society

NASA Goes Social to Take Its Case Directly to the People

About NASA's Ames Research Center | NASA

Jason Snell on Twitter: "Nerding out at supercomputer. Every blade server has 2 processors with 16-24 cores. #NASASocial https://t.co/dGOcFdneA3"

Jason Snell on Twitter: "Fun sticker logo from SPHERE. #NASASocial https://t.co/dH7VFREZFC"

SPHERES (Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites) | NASA

13: It's Important to Have a Dryer Sheet Feb 01, 2016

Show notes

This week, Stephen and Jason catch up on Space X and Blue Origin news, wish Opportunity a happy 12th birthday and reflect on the 30th anniversary of the Challenger disaster.

This episode of Liftoff is sponsored by:

Luminos: A fantastic astronomy app, 10 years in the making! Now with an Apple Watch app for skygazing!
Squarespace: Build it beautiful. Use code ‘LIFTOFF’ for 10% off.

Links and Show Notes

Liftoff on Tumblr

SpaceX fails a third time to land its Falcon 9 on a drone ship in the sea | The Verge

Polar orbit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Blue Origin | Launch. Land. Repeat.

Blue Origin beats SpaceX to re-launching a reusable rocket | The Verge

Opportunity Mars Rover Marks 12 Years on Red Planet

Your Age on Other Worlds | Exploratorium

Mars Rover Opportunity Busy Through Depth of Winter | NASA

Opportunity (rover) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Opportunity mission timeline - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Image Opportunity's heat shield and springs

11+ Years of Mars Roving in 8 Minutes | Time-Lapse Video - YouTube

Everything You Need To Know About The Deep Space Station NASA Has To Build By 2018

Habitat Concepts for Deep Space Exploration (PDF)

Mike Brown (@plutokiller) | Twitter

Amazon.com: How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming (9780385531108): Mike Brown: Books

Caltech Researchers Find Evidence of a Real Ninth Planet | Caltech

Evidence found of a possible planet in the outer solar system.

Find Planet Nine

Liftoff #9: The Space Shuttle - Relay FM

NASA Day of Remembrance

'Challenger Disaster: Lost Tapes' recounts space shuttle tragedy 30 years later | collectSPACE

An Oral History Of The Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster

President Ronald Reagan - Address on the Challenger Disaster - YouTube

The Challenger Disaster: CBS Evening News 1-28-1986 - YouTube

The Challenger Disaster (2013) (TV)

Richard Feynman and the Space Shuttle Challenger investigation

12: The Size of a Refrigerator Jan 18, 2016

Show notes

Jason and Stephen are joined by Geof Morris, a Payload Rack Officer for the International Space Station. Geof works at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL.

This episode of Liftoff is sponsored by:

Luminos: A fantastic astronomy app, 10 years in the making! Now with an Apple Watch app for skygazing!
Squarespace: Build it beautiful. Use code ‘LIFTOFF’ for 10% off.

Guest Starring:

Links and Show Notes

Turn up your speakers and take a wild ride on a Shuttle solid rocket booster - Bad Astronomy : Bad Astronomy

Four to five: Engineer details changes made to SLS booster - SpaceFlight Insider

New Budget Bolsters NASA's Journey to Mars Plans | The Planetary Society

NASA’s next flagship space telescope to get formal start | Spaceflight Now

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) NASA

China plans more than 20 space launches in 2016

Tiangong-2 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

JunoCam cruise data, and a look ahead to Jupiter | The Planetary Society

Inside the vault: A rare glimpse of NASA’s otherworldly treasures | Ars Technica

International Space Station | NASA

About Marshall | NASA

Astronauts Prepare for Busy Week of Fluid Shift Experiments and End of Week Spacewalk | Space Station

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