Episode 474: Another Six Months
Starliner will come home without crew; Suni and Butch are headed home on a Dragon. Also, EscaPADE arrives, Block 1B begins, and RFA has a BBQ.
The Orbital Mechanics Podcast · The Orbital Mechanics
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Show Notes
Spaceflight News
-- Starliner crew to return on Dragon (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)
Short & Sweet
-- EscaPADE arrives in Florida (spacenews.com)
-- SLS gets bumped up a block (spacenews)
-- RFA first stage lost in test-firing anomaly (arstechnica.com) (spacenews.com) (europeanspaceflight.com) (youtu.be)
This Week in Spaceflight History
-- 27 Aug, 1985. Launch of STS-51-I (PDF: nasa.gov) (youtube.com) (forum.nasaspaceflight.com) (historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov) (PDF: ntrs.nasa.gov) (wikiarchives.space) (en.wikipedia.org)
-- Next week (9/3 - 9/9) in 1988: Shouldn’t have had that last cup of coffee