Space Gab Podcast #216 for 30 Jan 2023

Space Gab Podcast

Kennedy Space Center as seen from the ISS, China producing detailed and exciting space promotion videos to attract youth and explorers, January 27th 1967 The hell of Apollo 1: Pure oxygen, a single spark, and death in 17 seconds, 37 years ago (Jan 28, 1986) the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion 73 seconds into its flight, killed all 7 astronauts aboard, Wow ... check out this view of the green comet, China's big moon rocket now launching in 2035, Planets in line with moon tonight ... bottom to top ... Left Venus, Jupiter, Moon Right Jupiter, Moon, Mars, listened to The Astro Ben Podcast .. Ben Gamble talking with John Kraus, spaceflight photographer, So that's how they'll do it The mission to return martian samples back to Earth will see a European 2.5 metre-long robotic arm pick up tubes filled with precious soil from Mars and transfer them to a rocket for an historic interplanetary delivery, Japan's first orbital launch in 2023, Have you the space related Twizzlers Twists ad, SpaceX Falcon 9 Starlink launch, Lucy task list grows, ESA’s director general says the agency does not have the budgetary capacity nor the political intention to send its astronauts to China’s Tiangong space station CSS. Rocket Lab Electron launch from Virginia.