EPISODE · Dec 18, 2024 · 38 MIN

Episode 490: PhageX

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

Spaceflight News— Orion’s heat shield (americaspace.com) (nasa.gov)Short & Sweet— Tests of Russian Orbital Station core module announced (interfax.com)— Ingenuity’s Crash Investigation (spacenews.com) (youtube.com) (youtube.com)Questions, Comments, Corrections— Joel Rogers via email: Young and Crippen didn’t fly on Enterprise.This Week in Spaceflight History— December 17, 2012: Grasshopper makes its first real hop (spacenews.com) (en.wikipedia.org)— Next week (1/1 - 1/6) in 1959: To the moon! Uh... to the Sun!

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NASA figured out what caused Orion's heat shield to crumble to bits! Also, Russia steps toward ISS replacement, and a preview crash investigation

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