Episode 364: Tissue Paper Pineapple
Lucy's straightening her wings! Also, Star(liner) fliers, Cygnus dodging, and Firefly role changes.
The Orbital Mechanics Podcast · The Orbital Mechanics
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Show Notes
Spaceflight News
— Lucy in the news with updates (space.com) (spaceflightnow.com) (blogs.nasa.gov) (youtube.com)
Short & Sweet
— Starliner gets its first crew (spacenews.com)
— ISS performs debris avoidance maneuver (nasa.gov)
— Markusic steps down as CEO of Firefly (spacenews.com)
Questions, Comments, Corrections
— From the intro: Perseverance sees something shiny (planetary.org)
This Week in Spaceflight History
— June 27, 1982: Launch of Columbia, STS-4 (en.wikipedia.org) (spacefacts.de)
— This was one of the Scotchguard flights (PDF: ntrs.nasa.gov) (twitter.com/DrPhiltill)
— Ejection seats were installed (and enabled) for only a handful of early Shuttle flights (PDF: nasa.gov)
— Neither SRB was recovered (core.ac.uk) (aero-news.net)
— Science payload included MLR (ntrs.nasa.gov)
— Next week (6/28 - 7/4) in 1979: Really big eye-in-the-sky.