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Liftoff — 172 episodes

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171: Apollo 17

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170: It Flew

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169: A Lot of Glory to be Bathed Within

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168: Apollo 16

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167: Back in the VAB

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166: JWST and the Future of Liftoff

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165: Forever Expanded in our Hearts

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164: A Dashcam for a Space Probe

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163: What Does it Look Like Under the Bus?

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162: Mixed-Use Business Park in Space

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161: Now It’s Very Much Precedented

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160: Hot Jupiters in Colorado

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159: Fun Stuff in Science

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158: A Bad Roommate

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157: It's in the Slushie Now

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156: You're Stealing My Rocks

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155: Apollo 15

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154: 💼 🚀 💰 💸

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153: Hubble Trouble

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152: It's Under Our Control, with Dr. Ed Lu

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151: Off to the Arctic Circle With You

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150: Worming It Up

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149: $5,999,999,999.99

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148: Space Suits as a Service

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147: Astronaut To Be Named Later

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146: Reverse Origami

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145: Sad Mole

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144: Elon Being Elon and the Early Days of SpaceX, with Eric Berger

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143: The Perseverance Landing and "For All Mankind" with Ron Moore

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142: Not To Sound Like a Parent, But...

31

141: Apollo 14

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140: The End of the Year Means Next Year

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139: Space Omelets

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138: A Great Acronym, but it's in Russian

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137: Delicate Dance of Docking

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136: Don’t Tell the Boss

37

135: Space is Full of Rocks

38

134: My Response to Existential Terror, with Dr. Katie Mack

39

133: The World’s Most Expensive WeWork

40

132: In the Shadow of Artemis

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131: Windex for Rockets

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130: A Salted Almond in Space

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129: Dirt in a Soccer Ball

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128: Summer of Mars

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127: Wormy Space Coin

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126: Astronauts are Really Good at Moving

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125: A Sparkly Dinosaur

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124: Space Koozie

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123: Lunar Camper

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122: Get an Exoplanet; Lose an Exoplanet

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121: Apollo 13

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120: Everything Got Jumbled and Fell Down

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119: A Rovey McRoverface Situation

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118: A Reusable Buddy Satellite

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117: Things Bumping Against Other Things

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116: Remembering Challenger

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115: A Mannequin is Not an Astronaut

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114: A Pentagon of Storms

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113: Barbecue Freezer

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112: Apollo 12

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111: Escape of the Mole

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110: A Consensual Hallucination

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109: An SLS in the Garage

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108: Hungry for Artemis Details

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107: Build a Lunar Zipline

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106: One Robot Closet

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105: Hallowed Ground

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104: A Beautiful Rocket Butterfly

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103: Apollo 11

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102: Important Business Meetings

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101: Behind the Back Fence

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100: There's Nobody in Charge

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99: Apollo 10

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98: The Moon is Having a Moment

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97: The Titans Who Live There

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96: Probably Not Space Cows

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95: The Red Flag

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94: A Planned Countdown Hold

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93: Budget Season

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92: Apollo 9

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91: Shoot and Hope

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90: My Feet Belong on the Ground

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89: Some Time at the Taco Bar

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88: Pixely Peanut

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87: Apollo 8

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86: Two-Tone Rocket

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85: There's No E in 'Flight'

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84: Emotions of Distant Galaxies

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83: Apollo 7

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82: Hubble Trouble

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81: Lasers Are the Best

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80: Little Caesars Mars Probe

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79: The Final Bridge to Crewed Flight

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78: Shed Some Sunlight on It

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77: Belly Flop Situation

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76: Talking Curiosity with Emily Lakdawalla

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75: Not a Guy, a Box

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74: Scientific Research and Glory

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73: No Party Beyond the Event Horizon

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72: Into the Black

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71: A 322-foot Football

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70: An All-Inclusive Space Hotel

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69: Apollo 6

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68: In Tune With Your System

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67: Paranoia and a Courtesy Laugh

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66: Fancy Ballast

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65: Apollo 4 and 5

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64: Remembering Apollo 1

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63: It Looks Like a Soup Can

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62: Get Out of Low Earth Orbit

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61: Sleepover in Space

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60: Crumbs Are Bad

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59: Kinda Bananas and Super Dangerous

114

58: Getting in on the Moon Money

115

57: A Realistic View

116

56: A Guy and a Grease Pencil

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55: Fireflies

118

54: Live from the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse

119

53: More Sevens

120

52: Missed by Half an Inch

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51: Dark Matter, with Dr. Katie Mack

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50: A Science Skateboard

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49: A Feel-good Mission About the Sun

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48: Hidden Figures

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47: Eclipses: Orbits Aren't Perfect

126

46: Team Pluto on the March

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45: Interested in Looking Awesome

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44: Voyager

129

43: Release the Ice Mole

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42: You Don't Wanna Hit a Moon

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41: The Ice Giants

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40: A Gradient of Space News

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39: The Speed of Light Doesn't Apply to Telepathy

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38: Lucy: Levitating Ulcers Carefully Yearning

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37: All Objects Are Special

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36: Remembering John Glenn

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35: Saturn: The Jewel of The Solar System

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34: The James Webb Telescope

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33: Cubesats: Orbital Science on a Budget

140

32: The Robotic Spacecraft Draft

141

31: Imagine If This All Works

142

30: Talking Kepler with Natalie Batalha

143

29: Solar System Sawdust: OSIRIS-REx & Asteroids

144

28: Exoplanets

145

27: Party Like It's 1999 RQ36

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26: The Journey to Mars

147

25: Mission Roundup

148

24: All Juno, All the Time

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23: Inside a Bendy Straw

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22: Billionaires at a Conference

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21: The Excitement Has Exploded

152

20: The Lifecycle of our Sun: Like a M&M

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19: Venus: The Pizza Planet

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18: The SLS

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17: Space Stations: Totally Not Obsessed

156

16: Like a Curtain in the Wind

157

15: The Moon Draft

158

14: Outside the Gates

159

13: It's Important to Have a Dryer Sheet

160

12: The Size of a Refrigerator

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11: Moon Phases & Tides

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10: The Solstice

163

9: The Space Shuttle

164

8: Halo of Junk

165

7: Still Probably Not Aliens

166

6: The Sun

167

5: 'The Martian'

168

4: A Laptop Every Ten Years

169

3: Poke His Twin

170

2: The Moon

171

1: Space Salad

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