<p>This fortnight, 2014 MU69 comes into focus, SLS has a new paint job and Stephen and Jason talk about the two rockets used in Project Mercury and the first two crewed American spaceflights. </p>
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<h4>Links and Show Notes</h4>  <h5><a href="https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/08/08/new-horizons-next-target-might-be-a-binary-pair/" target="_blank">New Horizons’ next target might be a binary pair – Spaceflight Now</a></h5> <h5><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/08/science/new-horizons-nasa-pluto-mu69-occultations.html?_r=1" target="_blank">Chasing Shadows for a Glimpse of a Tiny World Beyond Pluto - The New York Times</a></h5> <h5><a href="http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/2017/20170811-sls-booster-checkerboards.html" target="_blank">Function over form: NASA's Space Launch System gets a new paint job | The Planetary Society</a></h5> <h5><a href="https://www.relay.fm/membership" target="_blank">Membership - Relay FM</a></h5> <h5><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mercury#/media/File:Technicians_working_in_the_McDonnell_White_Room_on_the_Mercury-crop.jpg" target="_blank">Technicians working in the McDonnell White Room on the Mercury-crop - Project Mercury - Wikipedia</a></h5> <h5><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_701" target="_blank">IBM 701 - Wikipedia</a></h5> <h5><a href="https://www.relay.fm/liftoff/48" target="_blank">Liftoff #48: Hidden Figures - Relay FM</a></h5> <h5><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-Redstone_3" target="_blank">Mercury-Redstone 3 - Wikipedia</a></h5> <h5><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-Redstone_4" target="_blank">Mercury-Redstone 4 - Wikipedia</a></h5> <h5><a href="https://www.childrensmuseum.org/exhibits/beyond-spaceship-earth" target="_blank">Beyond Spaceship Earth | The Children's Museum of Indianapolis</a></h5>

54: Live from the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse

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