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The Expanse (8 Book Series)- Amazon

Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew- Amazon

Star Lore of All Ages

The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

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Iridium-5 Mission Webcast Link- SpaceX

Expedition 55 Focuses on Spacewalk and Dragon Delivery

Expedition 55 Spacewalk Video- Periscope

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SNAP-27 Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator

Apollo 4 was First-Ever Launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center

Assignment: Earth- Memory Alpha

The Fictional McKinley Rocket Base- Memory Alpha

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The von Braun and Verne connection is something I will discuss in further detail soon. Check out below in the show notes for some links and notes.

Matthew Travis has this great video on YouTube. It covers the entire flight From Kwajelein
Launch And Crash Of The First SpaceX Falcon 1 Rocket From Kwajelein

Atlantis STS-45 Video Highlights

"MR-BD is not MR-3"- This New Ocean: A History of Project Mercury

This biography of von Braun has some mention of Jules Verne.

Biography of Wernher von Braun- Marshall Space Flight Center

From the Earth to the Moon- NASA educational archival website

This is a subject I plan on exploring a bit more before too long. I like how sci-fi helped inspire older generations of scientists, just as modern sci-fi is doing the same. Check out this article on von Braun and Disney.
Article on Von Braun and Walt Disney

NASA- von Braun Biography

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Space Bat

STS-119 Highlights PDF

STS-119 Mission Page

Astronaut Joseph M. Acaba- Twitter

"Forbidden Planet" Trailer- YouTube

"Forbidden Planet"- iTunes

"Forbidden Planet"- Amazon Streaming

"Forbidden Planet" AFI Catalog

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Here are the links to the podcasts that Sarah creates. Be sure to check them out! Audio dramas are a great thing to listen to on road trips or long drives. Do yourself a favor and check out this show!

Girl In Space | A Sci-Fi Mystery Audio Drama- iTunes

Or if you don't use iTunes, check out Girl In Space here as well.
Girl In Space

Write Now with Sarah Werner | For Writers, On Writing

Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy- Kip Thorne

The Science of Interstellar- Kip Thorne

LIGO- Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory

LIGO Video

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Russian Fireball Explosion Shows Meteor Risk Greater Than Thought

Galileo's Observations of the Moon, Jupiter, Venus and the Sun

After 350 Years, Vatican Says Galileo Was Right: It Moves

Galileo- Biography

Article- The Apollo 15 Hammer-Feather Drop

Video- Apollo 15- A Hammer and a Feather

Star Trek: The Next Generation- Episode 15

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LARES- A Satellite for testing General Relativity

LAGEOS- NASA Website

ESA- Vega Rocket

Clint Howard- Memory Alpha

Air and Space

Girl In Space

Houston We Have A Podcast

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The Drake Equation

Winston Churchill’s essay on alien life found

Zookeepers, Alien Visitors, Or Simple Life

Sir David Gill

Tsiolkovsky - Russian Cosmism and Extraterrestrial Intelligence

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SpaceX: Iridium-5 to launch in March; government shutdown creates manifest uncertainty- Chris Gebhardt, NASAspaceflight.com

SpaceX Keeps U.S. Air Force's Confidence After Satellite's Loss- Bloomberg

ITOS-1 NASA Mission Page

ITOS Meteorological Satellite

OSCAR 5

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Artemis- Amazon.com

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Apollo 17 Lunar Surface Journal

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NASA Johnson Space Center Oral History Project- Harrison "Jack" Schmitt

Here's the article I mentioned. It's by Calla Cofield from Space.com
Tuesday Will Mark SpaceX's 1st Launch from Complex 40 Since Fiery Explosion

One of the best pictures from the surface of the moon

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Benjamin Franklin- Letter to Joseph Priestley, February 8th, 1780

Benjamin Frankin- Letter to Rev. Dr. Lathrop, May 31st, 1788

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Check out this video, it's pretty wild. I can't imagine the letdown from that adrenaline rush.
Discovery Pad Abort Video

I found this page while researching the different abort methods for Shuttle launches. I'm glad that astronauts never had to use these procedures.

Inflight Crew Escape System

STS-26 Wakeup Call: Robin Williams and Space Shuttle Discovery

Serenity

The movie "Serenity" not to be confused with serenity now

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Mars Observer: In-Depth- NASA

Mars Exploration Program- NASA

Star Trek: Discovery

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Star Trek: Discovery - Main Title Sequence

NASA- Luna 16

The Best of Both Worlds- Part II- Memory Alpha

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Beyond 2012: Why the World Didn't End

Scientists reject impending Nibiru-Earth collision

Hypothetical 'Planet X': Overview

Redemption Part II- Memory Alpha

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Remembering the Vela Incident- Universe Today

What the U.S. Government Really Thought of Israel’s Apparent 1979 Nuclear Test- Politico

I forgot to mention this in the episode today, but I will talk about it a little tomorrow.
Kirk’s Phaser Rifle Sells For $231K At Auction

Lucille Ball- Memory Alpha

Where No Man Has Gone Before- Memory Alpha

50 Years Later: Where No Man Has Gone Before- StarTrek.com

Where No Man has Gone Before- Episode 3
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Buzz Aldrin and Greg Autry: It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to run NASA

Expedition 41 Begins Unloading New Research Delivered on Dragon

Rodent Research-1 (SpaceX-4)

ESA- First European Commander of the ISS

NROL-42 ULA Launch

Fantastic Fiction- H.G. Wells

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New US-Russian Crew Launches to Space Station on Soyuz Rocket

Discovery's Theme Takes Cue From The Past

Hydrothermal Activity on Enceladus

John F. Kennedy Moon Speech - Rice Stadium

Astronaut Frank Culbertson Letter from September 11, 2001

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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan 35th Anniversary

GRAIL Mission Page

GRAIL NASA Facts PDF

GRAIL Press Kit- PDF

NASA Cassini Images May Reveal Birth of a Saturn Moon

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Memory Alpha- The Man Trap

Memory Alpha- Star Trek: The Original Series

Amazon.com- The Man Trap (Remastered)

Cassini Countdown #7- This is a cool visualization that shows a flyover of Titan's seas. Check it out!
Flying over an Extraterrestrial Land of Lakes

STS-106 NASA Mission Page

Surveyor 5 NASA Mission Summary

Genesis- NASA Mission Summary

Genesis Solar Wind Samples

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A Trip to the Moon

NASA Statement on Nomination for Agency Administrator

Space News- White House nominates Bridenstine as NASA administrator

NASA- Pioneer 11 Mission

Pioneer 11 To End Operations After Epic Career

This video is nuts, be sure to check it out.

SpaceX Static Fire Anomaly- US Launch Report

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The Fantastic Worlds online exhibit through the Smithsonian that I was talking about earlier today. Check out all seven chapters for some interesting history I didn't have time to cover today.

Fantastic Worlds

Urban Explorations- The Great Moon Hoax Was Simply a Sign of Its Time

The Great Moon Hoax of 1835- Text

NASA- Mariner 2 Mission Page

NASA- STS-51-I Mission Page

Radio Broadcast MP3- The War of the Worlds

Radio Broadcast MP3- X Minus One Episodes

Large Binocular Telescope

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Check out this neat interactive timeline of the Voyager missions. I've got it set to when Voyager 2 encounters Saturn, August 25/26 1981.

NASA JPL Voyager Timeline

Voyager Spacecraft

Enceladus: Overview

Voyager Interstellar Mission

I love reading this series, and I'm so pumped for the next season!

The Expanse- Season 3- Official San Diego Comic Con 2017 Trailer

STS-28 Mission Summary

STS-118 Mission Summary

Genesis- Search for Origins
Space.com- Official: Genesis Pre-Launch Test Skipped

SpaceX CRS 12 is scheduled for mid-day on Sunday.
Spaceflight Now Launch Schedule

The Planet Venus- NASA Student Page

Pioneer Venus Project Information

HAVOC- Mission Information

Timelapse- Google Earth Engine

NASA- STS-93 Deploys Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Chandra Top 10 Facts
NASA Chandra X-Ray Observatory Homepage

Eileen Collins- NASA Biography
NASA Administrator Bridenstine? His name’s in the mix for Trump’s space team

(PDF) NASA 2017 Budget Estimates

Landsat 1 NASA Mission Page

Pioneer Mission Home Page- NASA
Pioneer 10 Archived Mission Page
The Pioneer Missions

Dawn- NASA JPL Website
NASA JPL Electric Propulsion Website
The Prius of Space

Apollo Soyuz Test Project- Archived NASA Website
Thomas P Stafford- Johnson Space Center Oral History 1997
Welcome to Houston- The Partnership: A History of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project

Wreckage in the Desert Was Odd but Not Alien
Project Gutenberg- ROSWELL UFO INCIDENT

Roswell UFO Festival

The Internet Archive- Robert A. Heinlein

X-Files Theme Song