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Episode 189: Rocket Surgery
Manage episode 223629632 series 118428
This week in SF history
— December 20 1999, STS-103, Hubble Servicing Mission 3A (wikipedia.org)(nasa.gov)
— Aft shroud latches damaged by high temperatures (spacetelescope.org)(nasa.gov)
— Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS) (nasa.gov)
— Solid State Recorder (PDF: nasa.gov)
Spaceflight news
— SpaceShipTwo (spacenews.com) (twitter.com)
— Mark Stucky and C.J. Sturckow piloted the craft, and will get astronaut wings. (twitter.com/jackiewattles)
— Soyuz hole investigated on spacewalk (space.com) (youtube.com)
— Strela used to help climb down (wikipedia.org)
— Kononenko performed similar spacewalk in 2008 (nasa.gov)
Short & Sweet
— Chang’e-4 enters lunar orbit. (spacenews.com)
— RS-25 stand test aborted (twitter.com)
— OneWeb cuts its constellation by a third. (spacenews.com)
Questions, comments, corrections
— Andrew Levine via email: OSIRIS-REx “entering orbit” around Bennu
457 episodes
Manage episode 223629632 series 118428
This week in SF history
— December 20 1999, STS-103, Hubble Servicing Mission 3A (wikipedia.org)(nasa.gov)
— Aft shroud latches damaged by high temperatures (spacetelescope.org)(nasa.gov)
— Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS) (nasa.gov)
— Solid State Recorder (PDF: nasa.gov)
Spaceflight news
— SpaceShipTwo (spacenews.com) (twitter.com)
— Mark Stucky and C.J. Sturckow piloted the craft, and will get astronaut wings. (twitter.com/jackiewattles)
— Soyuz hole investigated on spacewalk (space.com) (youtube.com)
— Strela used to help climb down (wikipedia.org)
— Kononenko performed similar spacewalk in 2008 (nasa.gov)
Short & Sweet
— Chang’e-4 enters lunar orbit. (spacenews.com)
— RS-25 stand test aborted (twitter.com)
— OneWeb cuts its constellation by a third. (spacenews.com)
Questions, comments, corrections
— Andrew Levine via email: OSIRIS-REx “entering orbit” around Bennu
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