138: A Great Acronym, but it's in Russian
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English - December 01, 2020 20:45 - 33 minutes - 31.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 131 ratingsEducation Science space nasa rockets hackett snell Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
The world is mourning the uncontrolled collapse of the Arecibo observatory, even as China's Chang’e-5 mission is underway to return lunar samples to Earth, which would be a first since the final Apollo mission. Also: an update on the SLS and Orion and a look at what's going on at Roscosmos.
The world is mourning the uncontrolled collapse of the Arecibo observatory, even as China's Chang’e-5 mission is underway to return lunar samples to Earth, which would be a first since the final Apollo mission. Also: an update on the SLS and Orion and a look at what's going on at Roscosmos.
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Links and Show Notes: Support Liftoff with a Relay FM Membership The Arecibo Observatory Platform Has Collapsed - Universe Today Deborah Martorell on Twitter — Photos of Collapsed Arecibo Contact (1997) - IMDb Rocket Lab declares success in Electron rocket recovery - SpaceNews Russian spaceport officials are being sacked left and right | Ars Technica Russia’s replacement for the Proton rocket costs way too much | Ars Technica NASA Prepares for Next Series of RS-25 Engine Tests for SLS Rocket – Artemis Component failure in NASA’s deep-space crew capsule could take months to fix - The Verge Update on Orion Final Assembly and Transfer – Artemis China Launches Lunar Sample Return Mission – SpacePolicyOnline.com China launches ambitious mission to bring back samples from the Moon - The Verge Chang’e-5 successfully lands on moon to collect youngest lunar samples - SpaceNews