Off-Nominal
By Jake Robins, Anthony Colangelo
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Two friends, two beers, and a casual conversation about space. Landing monthly in your podcast feed.
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221 - Ornithopter of Spacecraft (with Jeffrey Kluger)
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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220 - I Will Always Follow the Law, Senator (with Loren Grush)
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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219 - ITAR-Certified Auction Houses (with Ed Ge)
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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218 - How Many Boeing 737s Tall
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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217 - Buran DMCA Takedown (with Paul Fjeld)
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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216 - Golden Llama (with Eric Berger)
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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215 - Gainesville-on-Ocala (with Craig Baerwaldt and Sarah Freese)
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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214 - Blasting Through the Pork Chop
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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213 - This is Why We Playtest (with Adam Wuerl and Rob Davis)
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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212 - Subcontractor Voltron
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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211 - The International Team (with Christian Davenport)
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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210 - Hufflepuff Ships (with Greg Gillinger)
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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209 - Mars Life Pushers (with Chris Temby and Jan Špaček)
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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208 - 1-0 Freedom
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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207 - Replacement Money (with Randy Riddle, LeonRunningMan!)
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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206 - Coalition for Deep State Exploration
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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205 - Knives Out for Kansas
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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204 - It’s Not Delivery, It’s Deorbit (with Joe Barnard)
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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203 - 20 Tree and Me
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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202 - Rapidly Adjusting (with Adrian Beil)
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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201 - Bad Ass, But Also Bad (with Casey Dreier and Eric Berger)
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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200 - On the Interstages of Giants (with Matt Gjertsen)
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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199 - The Thing That We Grow Plants
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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198 - Gotahm
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May 30, 2025 |
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197 - Valves and Cranberries
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May 23, 2025 |
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196 - ❌ Lady Telescope ❌
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May 13, 2025 |
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195 - Dirtiest Thing in the Cleanroom (with Dante Lauretta)
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May 01, 2025 |
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194 - St. Bart’s on a Tuesday (with Roman Chiporukha)
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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193 - The Secretary of Land
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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192 - Accordion-Based ECLSS (with Chris Carberry and Sam Burbank)
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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191 - It’s 5 O’Clock Somewhere…at a Rocket Lab Facility (with Richard French)
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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190 - Poolonauts (with Jason Snell)
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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189 - Glow in the Dark Plants (with Awais Ahmed)
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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188 - Barry Up the Street (with Jonathan McDowell)
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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187 - Amazon Basics Lunar Lander
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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186 - It’s Like the Cinnamon Challenge (with Casey Dreier)
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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185 - A Little Bit Like Mexico (with Matthew Weinzierl and Brendan Rosseau)
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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184 - Trickle Down Space News
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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183 - Stumbling into Bridenstine Scoops (with Kristin Fisher)
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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182 - Firmly Against Night Launches (with Stephen Clark)
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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181 - Down-Suggest (with Swapna Krishna)
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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180 - Murgers Back on the Menu
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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179 - Not Supposed to Poof (Presenting the 2024 Off-Nominees with Loren Grush)
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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178 - Weirdest Midlife Crisis (with Tim Fernholz)
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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177 - Sudafed and Rockstars (with Matt Gialich)
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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176 - Cosplaying the Shuttle (with Adrian Beil)
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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175 - Hijinks on the Moon
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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174 - Burning Bridges Together (with Eric Berger)
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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173 - A Bigger Diaper (with Scott “Kidd” Poteet)
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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172 - Culberson Always Talked About Shrimp
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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171 - Stiletto Starship (with Jack Beyer)
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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170 - Luckily, We Did All the Math (with Casey Handmer)
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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169 - Sexy Atlantis
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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168 - Elon Munch (with Joe Barnard)
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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167 - Bechtold (with Eric Berger)
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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166 - General Five Year Old (with Tanya Harrison and Emma Louden)
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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165 - Vacuum Light Pipe (with Dr. Gerard van Belle)
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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164 - Middle Finger to Entropy (with Casey Dreier)
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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163 - COTS of JSC (with John Conafay)
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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162 - falcon_9.mp3 (with Logan and Alan from MSI DFAT)
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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161 - Ambassador Administrator Senator (with Christian Davenport)
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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160 - Cut That Shit Out (with Lori Garver and Loren Grush)
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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159 - The Budget Wedges are All Wedging (with Joey Roulette and Jacqueline Feldscher)
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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158 - Meant to F
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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157 - Assuming States are Rational (with Laura Delgado López)
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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156 - It’s All Muscle (with Mark Peller, VP of Vulcan Development at ULA)
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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155 - Unhinged Planetary Desire (with Peter Beck, CEO of Rocket Lab)
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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154 - They Ran Into Us (with Matt Desch, CEO of Iridium)
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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153 - Gyros on the Butt
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May 31, 2024 |
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152 - Low ARPU Sub
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May 09, 2024 |
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151 - CanadLeg
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May 03, 2024 |
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150 - Bullets and Cheetos
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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149 - Bob from Valves, Inc.
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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148 - Keep the Meter Running
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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147 - Bouncy Castle Payload Adapter
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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146 - Stocking the Shelves
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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145 - Space Elevator Jazz
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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144 - The Tube Man
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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143 - Maneuver Without Regret (feat. Warfighting Domain) (feat. Tim Fernholz)
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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142 - Multivariate Disaster
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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141 - TRL Valley of Death
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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140 - Cultivating a Vibe
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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139 - Sourdough Software Starter
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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138 - Double SPAC
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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137 - Daddy Space Force
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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136 - A Little Bit Better Than Arianespace
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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135 - Stupid Vertical Dogleg Machine
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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134 - Artemis II.5
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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133 - I’m an Adult with a Job
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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132 - Boneless Skineater
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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131 - AAA for Science
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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130 - Crossfire Between Scientists and Engineers
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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129 - Tier 1 Gifts
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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128 - These Were Bad Movies
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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127 - Hot Moon Takes
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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126 - Whatever, Russell
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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125 - The Ball Pit
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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124 - Accidental Cadence
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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123 - An Exciting Time
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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122 - Space.com Bubble
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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121 - Status: Future
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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120 - Big Dumb Satellites
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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119 - Don’t Train for the Nominal Shit
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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118 - Experienced Drunk Idiots
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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117 - ⅃ L
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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116 - Hot NSSL Summer
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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115 - I’m Getting a Twinkie Vibe
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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114 - Starship Blue
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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113 - AutoNav Road Rage
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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112 - Big Microgravity
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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111 - Extended Warranty, New Fairings
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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110 - Big “I Made It in Blender” Energy
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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109 - Boil-off Truther
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May 26, 2023 |
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108 - Super Secret about Plutonium
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May 19, 2023 |
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107 - He's Got a Butt
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May 12, 2023 |
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106 - Main Menu
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May 05, 2023 |
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105 - There and Beck Again
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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104 - Ricky Bobby Goes to the Moon (Live from Space Symposium 2023)
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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103 - Same Ice Cream Man
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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102 - Does Anyone Need SRBs?
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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101 - Tastes Like Fish
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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100 - Astronaut Astronaut
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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99 - Open-Box Protons
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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98 - Bing It with ChatGPT
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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97 - Figure This One Out, Howard!
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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96 - Lori’s Mom’s Favorite
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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95 - Horsesh
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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94 - Let’s Do Some UFO Shit
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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93 - Go Touch Some Grass
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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92 - We Should Buy a Bar
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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91 - The 240-Hour Cut
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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90 - This is a Complete Conspiracy
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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89 - The Final Year
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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88 - But, Nonetheless
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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87 - Grippy Socks
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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86 - Is That Callisto?
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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85 - The Highest I’ve Been
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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84 - JPL Christmas Party
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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83 - Bubba the Rocket Scientist
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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82 - Gatekeeping Hubble
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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81 - Foot Bits
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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80 - Vaguely a Mutiny
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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79 - A Wake of Creative Destruction
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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78 - John Grunsfeld’s Babysitter
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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77 - Accidental Shareholder
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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76 - Walter Cronkite was Faking It
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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75 - Four of Us Married Each Other
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Sep 02, 2022 |
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74 - All the Garys We Know
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Aug 26, 2022 |
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73 - Podcast is Not an Option
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Aug 12, 2022 |
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72 - Our Interest in Trash
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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71 - Full-On Frenemy Territory
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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70 - Send Jupes
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Jul 15, 2022 |
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69 - Was That NASA or MythBusters?
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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68 - Pop It Back Up There
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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67 - Eating The Pie All The Way Through
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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66 - My Next One is “Fiction”
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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65 - Star-Lionel Richie
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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64 - In Between is Hot Topic
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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63 - Something Philosophical About Croissants
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May 26, 2022 |
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62 - Anime Princess Telescope
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May 20, 2022 |
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61 - Santa Claus is Hypersonic
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May 13, 2022 |
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60 - Soviets Invented the Boostback
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May 06, 2022 |
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59 - Make it Rain in Alabama (with Casey Dreier)
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Apr 29, 2022 |
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58 - Wet Dress Rehearsal Dinner
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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57 - Ford Taurus-Littrow
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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56 - Export Control is Like Fight Club
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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55 - I’ve Slept on a Torpedo
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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54 - A Really Long Dog on Mars
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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53 - Venereal is Taken
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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52 - We Have All of Them
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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51 - Hubbles In Reverse
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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50 - Was That a Bake Sale?
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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49 - Spacewalk Chaperone
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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48 - The Abort Motor DLC
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Jan 09, 2022 |
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47 - The Birdy in French Guiana
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Dec 19, 2021 |
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46 - Anti-Satellite Own Goal
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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45 - Nauka Got Milkshake Ducked
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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44 - Jeff Bezos’ OnlyFans
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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43 - Aggressively Undocking
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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42 - Bullish on the Moon
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Jun 29, 2021 |
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41 - Roscosmos Shoulda Bought Bitcoin
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Jun 01, 2021 |
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40 - SpaceX Play Place
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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39 - Europe Saved Cassini’s Ass
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Mar 09, 2021 |
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38 - Sorry, I Got Too Itemized
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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37 - Go Behind Wendy’s
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Dec 22, 2020 |
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36 - December Hurricanes
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Nov 24, 2020 |
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35 - The 2 Mile of the Space Industry
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Oct 27, 2020 |
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34 - Repeatedly Googling Area 51
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Sep 22, 2020 |
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33 - Regular-Ass Fishing Boat
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Aug 18, 2020 |
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32 - Well Within the Kill Zone
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Jul 28, 2020 |
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31 - OG LIGO
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Jun 30, 2020 |
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Origins: Jim Bridenstine
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Jun 15, 2020 |
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Donation Campaign Update!
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Jun 14, 2020 |
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Let’s Make Space Better.
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Jun 10, 2020 |
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30 - There’s Always Money in the VAB
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May 19, 2020 |
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29 - Go Full Goldin
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Apr 14, 2020 |
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28 - Don’t Sneeze in Their Mouths!
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Mar 17, 2020 |
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27 - Space Policy Fugue State
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Feb 11, 2020 |
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26 - Hungover on Reentry
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Jan 14, 2020 |
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25 - SpaceX Cinematic Universe
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Dec 10, 2019 |
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24 - Jim-Adjacent
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Nov 05, 2019 |
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Meet us at IAC 2019!
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Oct 08, 2019 |
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23 - What is the protocol for this?
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Sep 17, 2019 |
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22 - The Dark Lord
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Aug 06, 2019 |
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21 - Carpet Bombing Venus
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Jul 16, 2019 |
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20 - People Doin’ It, Right?
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Jun 18, 2019 |
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19 - Space Traffic Cones
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May 20, 2019 |
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18 - Autogenously Pressurized Double Double
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Apr 17, 2019 |
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17 - Larry from Boeing
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Mar 12, 2019 |
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16 - Imaginated Soap Buckets
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Jan 22, 2019 |
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15 - +1 Space Dagger
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Dec 19, 2018 |
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14 - Gary from Lockheed (really this time)
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Nov 12, 2018 |
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13 - Bad Looking Unmixed Nuts
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Oct 18, 2018 |
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12 - Gary from Lockheed
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Sep 17, 2018 |
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11 - That’s a Peach
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Aug 07, 2018 |
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10 - A Cafe in Milan
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Jul 10, 2018 |
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09 - Randomly Throwing Money Out Into the Cosmos
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Jun 12, 2018 |
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08 - God Save The Queen
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May 15, 2018 |
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07 - FLying Around Mars Imaging aNd Geography Observatory
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Apr 10, 2018 |
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06 - I’ve Got Like 35 Loons
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Mar 06, 2018 |
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05 - The Volume of Anti-Starmanism
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Feb 13, 2018 |
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04 - In The Year of Our Lord Steve Squyres
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Jan 09, 2018 |
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03b - From Tahiti to Hawai'i (post-Episode 3 Bonus Content)
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Dec 05, 2017 |
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03 - Don’t Fail Me Now, Twitter Translate!
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Dec 05, 2017 |
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02 - Interstellar Rock (and Roll)
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Nov 07, 2017 |
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01 - You can’t go to space in pajamas
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Oct 08, 2017 |