A podcast for learning about all the bad things that happened to people who went up.
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Failure To Launch Podcast
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Related: anyone remember Mars One? That was fun times. They were gonna crowdfund a Mars colony with reality TV! They picked a bunch of candidates with 10-minute Skype interviews!
Granted, harming international space cooperation didn't stop Roscosmos from forcing hundreds of employees into a mercenary group, the Uranus Battalion, and sending them to the trenches
I doubt it's on their list of targets or that they'd risk pissing off the US over it, but it's probably significant that Ukranian drones can reach and hit targets in the same city as the only Soyuz rocket factory
Apropos of nothing, I'm reading up on Mars One, that time a space company got massive media attention and funding through promoting unfeasible and uneconomical vaporware
Non-rechargeable fold up go-kart
v.
RC tank carrying a brick of Po-210
Non-rechargeable fold up go-kart
v.
RC tank carrying a brick of Po-210
So we're doing Apollo 9 if the LM in Apollo 9 were a boilerplate model. Great.
New episode!
We had Dr. Alan Jamieson from the @deepseapod.com on to talk about exploring the deep sea and how it is alarmingly close to what the first astronauts and cosmonauts went through. Also a lot of fun chatting on the different engineering behind spacecraft and submersibles.
