This week, Stephen and Jason catch up on Space X and Blue Origin news, wish Opportunity a happy 12th birthday and reflect on the 30th anniversary of the Challenger disaster.

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Links and Show Notes

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SpaceX fails a third time to land its Falcon 9 on a drone ship in the sea | The Verge

Polar orbit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Blue Origin | Launch. Land. Repeat.

Blue Origin beats SpaceX to re-launching a reusable rocket | The Verge

Opportunity Mars Rover Marks 12 Years on Red Planet

Your Age on Other Worlds | Exploratorium

Mars Rover Opportunity Busy Through Depth of Winter | NASA

Opportunity (rover) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Opportunity mission timeline - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Image Opportunity's heat shield and springs

11+ Years of Mars Roving in 8 Minutes | Time-Lapse Video - YouTube

Everything You Need To Know About The Deep Space Station NASA Has To Build By 2018

Habitat Concepts for Deep Space Exploration (PDF)

Mike Brown (@plutokiller) | Twitter

Amazon.com: How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming (9780385531108): Mike Brown: Books

Caltech Researchers Find Evidence of a Real Ninth Planet | Caltech

Evidence found of a possible planet in the outer solar system.

Find Planet Nine

Liftoff #9: The Space Shuttle - Relay FM

NASA Day of Remembrance

'Challenger Disaster: Lost Tapes' recounts space shuttle tragedy 30 years later | collectSPACE

An Oral History Of The Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster

President Ronald Reagan - Address on the Challenger Disaster - YouTube

The Challenger Disaster: CBS Evening News 1-28-1986 - YouTube

The Challenger Disaster (2013) (TV)

Richard Feynman and the Space Shuttle Challenger investigation