Stephen and Jason talk the news, from blackholes to Beresheet, and spacesuits to backronyms. Then, a bit about the Crew Dragon anomaly.

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SpaceX's Center Core Booster for Falcon Heavy Rocket Is Lost at Sea | Space

International Conference on Environmental Systems

New details emerge about Titan's methane lakes - SpaceFlight Insider

ACRONYM: Acronym CReatiON for You and Me (PDF)

GitHub: ACRONYM (Acronym CReatiON for You and Me)

The Incomparable | Turn Left at the Asteroid (Episode 453)

Software Command to Fix Faulty Sensor Doomed Beresheet | The Planetary Society

David Copperfield’s Secrets - The Technology Behind His Greatest Illusions - Are Locked in a Vault That Just Crash-Landed on the Moon

Did NASA Experiment Survive on Failed Israeli Moon Lander?

Black Hole Image Makes History; NASA Telescopes Coordinate Observation | NASA

Exploring Black Holes | National Science Foundation

Seeing a black hole with half a ton of hard drives - Six Colors

Katie Bouman: The woman behind the first black hole image - BBC News

How to take a picture of a black hole | Katie Bouman - YouTube

The black hole image and Katie Bouman: the sexist backlash against her, explained - Vox

Here’s what we know, and what we don’t, about the Crew Dragon accident | Ars Technica

SpaceX turned to fast-igniting fuel for its capsule escape system. That could be part of the accident probe - Los Angeles Times