Podcast Episodes

148 - STS-74 - Putting out the Welcome Mat (Mir Docking Module)

We've docked at Mir before, but moving the Kristall module around is such a hassle. What if we could just make it a little longer so the shuttle coul…

4 years, 7 months ago

147 - STS-73 - Seventh Time's the Charm (USML-2)

Columbia is back from the shop and is sporting some new upgrades, but seems reluctant to leave Earth on its 18th voyage. Once on orbit, we'll do some…

4 years, 8 months ago

146 - STS-69 - Who Let the Dogs Back Out (Wake Shield Facility 2)

Endeavour is back on the launch pad with two payloads to both deploy and retrieve. One of those payloads looks a whole lot like a gigantic frisbee, s…

4 years, 8 months ago

145 - STS-70 - Flickers, Northern and New (TDRS-G deploy)

On STS-70 it's time to complete the TDRSS constellation! Or at least the first generation. We'll also resist putting fish eggs on crackers, buy some …

4 years, 9 months ago

144 - NASA-1 - Comrades and Cognac (Thagard on Mir)

Norm Thagard is about to become America's first Cosmonaut. What challenges will he encounter during his four months on the Russian space station Mir?…

4 years, 9 months ago

143 - STS-71 - Reunion (First Shuttle-Mir Docking)

Twenty years after the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, four years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and around a hundred days after the launch of No…

4 years, 10 months ago

142 - STS-67 - A Little More of the Ol' Ultraviolet

ASTRO-1 was a huge success, shining new light (more or less literally) on the universe with its ultraviolet observatory. But that was almost 30 fligh…

4 years, 10 months ago

141 - STS-63 - Near Mir

After all this talk about the Russian space station Mir, how about we take a close up look for ourselves? A REALLY close look.

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4 years, 11 months ago

140 - STS-66 - Ascending with Atlantis (ATLAS-3)

On STS-66 we welcome Atlantis back from its long maintenance period, further probe the upper atmosphere, test out a new rendezvous technique, and dis…

4 years, 11 months ago

139 - STS-68 - Deja Vu and Big Kaboom (SRL-2)

No, it's not a glitch in the Matrix, we're flying the same experiment on the same shuttle! Don't worry, we still find plenty to say. Oh, and Jupiter'…

4 years, 11 months ago