The nose knows on Mars
Listen 00:05:13European Space Agency and Roscosmos partnered to send a methane-hunting orbiter and a EDL systems tester to Mars. Should arrive in October. Plus, Universal Oddities: A dance between two black holes is observed 3.5 billion light years away – the bigger dance partner spins at one-third the speed of light !
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Blue Origin’s Bezos reaches space on 1st passenger flight
The Amazon founder was accompanied by a hand-picked group: his brother, an 18-year-old from the Netherlands and an 82-year-old aviation pioneer from Texas.
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Air Date: July 2, 2021
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