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    #97: The Titans Who Live There

    April 23rd, 2019 · 50 minutes

    Stephen and Jason talk the news, from blackholes to Beresheet, and spacesuits to backronyms. Then, a bit about the Crew Dragon anomaly.

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    Links and Show Notes

    SpaceX's Center Core Booster for Falcon Heavy Rocket Is Lost at Sea | Space
    International Conference on Environmental Systems
    New details emerge about Titan's methane lakes - SpaceFlight Insider
    ACRONYM: Acronym CReatiON for You and Me (PDF)
    GitHub: ACRONYM (Acronym CReatiON for You and Me)
    The Incomparable | Turn Left at the Asteroid (Episode 453)
    Software Command to Fix Faulty Sensor Doomed Beresheet | The Planetary Society
    David Copperfield’s Secrets - The Technology Behind His Greatest Illusions - Are Locked in a Vault That Just Crash-Landed on the Moon
    Did NASA Experiment Survive on Failed Israeli Moon Lander?
    Black Hole Image Makes History; NASA Telescopes Coordinate Observation | NASA
    Exploring Black Holes | National Science Foundation
    Seeing a black hole with half a ton of hard drives - Six Colors
    Katie Bouman: The woman behind the first black hole image - BBC News
    How to take a picture of a black hole | Katie Bouman - YouTube
    The black hole image and Katie Bouman: the sexist backlash against her, explained - Vox
    Here’s what we know, and what we don’t, about the Crew Dragon accident | Ars Technica
    SpaceX turned to fast-igniting fuel for its capsule escape system. That could be part of the accident probe - Los Angeles Times