Episodes
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This week in space, more details emerge about private lunar landers, astronaut blood flows backwards, and Boeing has a no good, very bad day.
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This week in space, we talk about what the election means for the future of space policy. Also, aliens, apparently.
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This week in space, the ISS gets commercial, astronauts bake cookies, and we discuss how the 2020 election season shapes the future of the Artemis moon program.
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This week in space, we discuss the fallout from the world's largest space convention with an SSI member who was there!
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This week in space, Blue Origin gets ahead of the competition by, well, not competing, nobody can find India's lunar lander, and we discuss how astronauts get fed.
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This week in space, NASA finally gets somebody in charge of human spaceflight, ESA admits its rockets are too expensive, and ... NASA holds a fashion show? We discuss what that means.
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This week in space, NASA and SpaceX hug and make up, all ships will be watched by commercial spy satellites, and we discuss what ongoing repairs to the ISS say about the future of the station.
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This week in space, NASA makes some compromises on their lunar lander, Relativity Space receives a frightening amount of funding, and we discuss the past and future of commercial space tourism.
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This week in space, NASA goes back to the old style of contracting, Russia and China team up to go to the moon, and Elon unveils his Starship and everyone has questions.
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This week in space, the Vice President gets excited about space nuclear propulsion, yet another internet constellation annoys astronomers, and we sit down with the head of an ambitious effort to reach space with a liquid rocket ... using only volunteer college students.
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This week in space, Blue Origin is preemptively angry about a launch contract, Cape Canaveral braces for an eye-watering amount of launches, and we sit down with a space 3D printing expert to talk about how the technology will change the industry.
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This week in space, SpaceX muscles in on the smallsat market, Rocket Lab considers reuseability, and we discuss the coming consolidation in launch and what it means for the industry as a whole.
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This week in space, France puts its space lasers where its mouth is, NASA acknowledges Starship, and a technical debate about in-space refueling is actually about seedy politics and the future of space exploration.
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This week in space, a Chinese startup makes history by reaching space, SpaceX's test Mars ship hops, and we discuss who the winners and losers will be of the new space internet race.
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This week in space, bickering at the White House, China deorbits the Tiangong 2 station, and we talk about the legacy of Apollo.
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This week in space, Arianespace loses a Vega rocket during launch, India prepares to be the fourth country on the moon, and a surprising NASA change of leadership offers insight into internal conflict in the agency.
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This week in space, a study supports a space telescope to protect us from asteroids, NASA releases contracts for most parts of the Artemis mission, and we discuss how rocket reuse has been changing the industry in unexpected ways.
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This week in space, NASA approves an ambitious mission to explore Saturn's moon Titan with a quadrotor drone, SpaceIL sets their sights even higher after sort of reaching the moon, and we discuss how much we can risk human lives in space.
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This week in space, Falcon Heavy launches 24 payloads, including a solar sail, everyone blames everyone as NASA funding gets contraversial, and a commercial company demonstrates refueling in space! This Week in Space is now back for the summer quarter, with more news and analysis than ever!
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This week in space, NASA funds commercial lunar landers in 2020 and 2021, Northrup discovers PR is hard after a test anomaly, and we discuss the controversy surrounding the light pollution from SpaceX's Starlink satellites.
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