Episode 228: Fired up

from The Orbital Mechanics Podcast · host David Fourman, Ben Etherington, and Dennis Just

This week in SF history— 21 September 1968: Landing of zond 5 (wikipedia.org) (russianspaceweb.com)— Next week in 2003: generic no longerSpaceflight news— H-IIB launch pad fire (youtube.com) (spacenews.com) (HT Sam in the chat: twitter.com/mageshiman1025)— NASA conducts ground test of the B330. (space.com) — Tour of B330 (Mars Transporter Testing Unit) and Olympus B2100 (youtube.com)Short & Sweet— Tianhe passes final review, though delays are still likely (spacenews.com)— NASA’s LRO to take images of the Vikram Lander (spaceflightnow.com)Questions, comments, corrections— GOES-13 correction from Kevin Smith (skyriddles.wordpress.com) (spacenews.com)

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H-IIB had a literal fire lit under its butt, and more info about Bigelow's expandable space stations.

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