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158: A Bad Roommate

158: A Bad Roommate

Update: 2021-09-071
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It's a real roller coaster this week, except for the Astra rocket that went ... sideway off the pad. Other stories include Inspiration4, the James Webb Space Telescope and dual-core stars.


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NASA's Perseverance Rover Successfully Cores Its First Rock – NASA’s Mars Exploration Program
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Collects First Mars Rock Sample | NASA
Cosmonauts Find Cracks in the Aging Zarya ISS Module - Universe Today
Russian cosmonauts find new cracks in ISS module | Reuters
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Has Completed Testing | NASA
Upper stage of Ariane 5 rocket for James Webb Space Telescope launch arrives in French Guiana - Space Explored
Cosmic indigestion: Swallowing a neutron star can cause a star to explode | Ars Technica
Inspiration4 - [object Object]
Netflix: Countdown: Inspiration4 Mission to Space
How It Happened - Podcasts - Axios
St. Jude Mission of a Lifetime Podcast
NASA’s big rocket misses another deadline, now won’t fly until 2022 | Ars Technica
Vibration Tests for Moon Rocket Help Ensure Safe Travels to Space | NASA
FAA grounds Virgin Galactic’s core spaceship pending probe into Richard Branson’s flight - The Verge
Astra LV0006 rocket fails to reach orbit after sliding horizontally off the pad - The Verge
Chris Kemp on Twitter: RE: Astra LV0006
Firefly Alpha failure blamed on premature engine shutdown - SpaceNews
Firefly Alpha FLTA001 - YouTube
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158: A Bad Roommate

158: A Bad Roommate

Jason Snell and Stephen Hackett