Episodes

  • 97: 🚀 Starship Fails Again, Firefly’s Moon Success, & More Space Drama!

    97: 🚀 Starship Fails Again, Firefly’s Moon Success, & More Space Drama!
    Mar 8 2025
    This week in spaceflight: Firefly Aerospace makes history with a successful Moon landing, while Intuitive Machines’ Athena mission doesn’t go as planned. Meanwhile, SpaceX’s Starship Flight 8 suffers another major failure, and rumors swirl about a Chinese rocket explosion at the launch pad. With NASA missions failing, ESA retiring old spacecraft, and even Cygnus getting damaged before launch, space isn’t having the best week. But there’s still plenty of excitement ahead, and we’ve got all the details!
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    23 mins
  • 30: Starbase Update: Booster 9 Testing, Ship 28's Cryo Test, & RIP SN15

    30: Starbase Update: Booster 9 Testing, Ship 28's Cryo Test, & RIP SN15
    Aug 1 2023
    NSF's Jack Beyer updates us on the ongoings at Starbase.
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    13 mins
  • 29: Starbase Update: SpaceX's Incredible Progress Towards Starship's 2nd Integrated Launch

    29: Starbase Update: SpaceX's Incredible Progress Towards Starship's 2nd Integrated Launch
    Jul 3 2023
    NSF's Ryan Caton gives an update on all things Starbase. July 3, 2023.
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    8 mins
  • 29: This Week In Spaceflight: Blue Origin's Success, Gravitational Wave Eureka, India's Space Endeavors

    29: This Week In Spaceflight: Blue Origin's Success, Gravitational Wave Eureka, India's Space Endeavors
    Jul 3 2023
    NSF's Elysia Segal takes us through the Spaceflight News of the week. June 30 2023
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    12 mins
  • 28: This Week In Spaceflight: NASA & China Partnership? SLS Engines Ready for Flight. Mercury in Sight.

    28: This Week In Spaceflight: NASA & China Partnership? SLS Engines Ready for Flight. Mercury in Sight.
    Jun 24 2023
    NSF's Elysia Segal takes us through the news of the week.
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    11 mins
  • 27: This Week in Spaceflight: Stoke Tests Prototype, SpaceX Hits Landing Milestone, ULA Gives Update

    27: This Week in Spaceflight: Stoke Tests Prototype, SpaceX Hits Landing Milestone, ULA Gives Update
    Jun 17 2023
    NSF's Elysia Segal rounds up the news of the week in Spaceflight.
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    17 mins
  • 26: Artemis Showdown: SpaceX Starship vs Blue Origin's Lunar Lander

    26: Artemis Showdown: SpaceX Starship vs Blue Origin's Lunar Lander
    Jun 15 2023
    NSF's Adrian Beil compares and contrasts SpaceX's Starship and Blue Origin's Lunar Lander.  Do we need both?
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    14 mins
  • 25: Starbase Update: Road Closures, Boosters, Ships and New Hardware

    25: Starbase Update: Road Closures, Boosters, Ships and New Hardware
    Jun 12 2023
    NSF's Jack Beyer takes us through the Starbase News of the week.
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    9 mins