April 14th, 2008
Podcast: Getting Around the Solar System
Written by Fraser Cain
Have you ever wondered what it takes to get a spacecraft off the Earth and into space. And how managers at NASA can actually navigate a spacecraft to another planet? And how does a gravity assist work? And how do they get them into orbit? And how do they land? So many questions…
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April 14th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
Best episode todate.
April 15th, 2008 at 11:44 am
Love that photo too.
April 15th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Best episode? Really? It's a subject we hadn't really covered much. I kind of felt like we rushed through it. If we'd planned things better, it probably would have been two or more episodes.
April 16th, 2008 at 6:59 am
I'm surprised at the colour of the exhaust plume in this photo. I admit I don't know much about the engineering involved in putting stuff in space, but think I've always seen the plumes coming out white in the photos. Why is this one yellow?