<p>Stephen comes with good news about InSight&#39;s Mole, and Jason says there probably aren&#39;t aliens on Venus. Also: OSIRIS-REx is due for a big day and the space industry in China is heating up.</p>
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<h4>Links and Show Notes:</h4>  <h5><a rel='payment' href='https://relayfm.memberful.com/checkout?plan=9649'>Support Liftoff with a Relay FM Membership</a></h5> <h5><a href="https://www.universetoday.com/148379/insights-mole-is-now-completely-buried/" target="_blank">InSight's 'Mole' is Now Completely buried! - Universe Today</a></h5> <h5><a href="https://www.universetoday.com/148345/astronomers-report-theyve-detected-the-amino-acid-glycine-in-the-atmosphere-of-venus/" target="_blank">Astronomers Report They've Detected the Amino Acid Glycine in the Atmosphere of Venus - Universe Today</a></h5> <h5><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/19/21522065/nasa-osiris-rex-bennu-asteroid-sample-return-tag" target="_blank">A NASA spacecraft is poised to snag the largest sample of rocks from an asteroid ever - The Verge</a></h5> <h5><a href="https://spacenews.com/nasa-selects-first-human-tended-suborbital-research-payload/" target="_blank">NASA selects first human-tended suborbital research payload - SpaceNews</a></h5> <h5><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasakennedy/50402338501/" target="_blank">The Worm... Inside the Rotation, Processing… | Flickr</a></h5> <h5><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/nasa_graphics_manual_nhb_1430-2_jan_1976.pdf" target="_blank">NASA Graphics Standards Manual (PDF)</a></h5> <h5><a href="https://spacenews.com/chinas-casic-reveals-five-year-plan-for-reusable-space-plane-commercial-space-projects/" target="_blank">China’s CASIC reveals five-year plan for reusable spaceplane, commercial space projects - SpaceNews</a></h5> <h5><a href="https://spacenews.com/first-launch-of-chinese-kuaizhou-11-rocket-ends-in-failure/" target="_blank">First launch of Chinese Kuaizhou-11 rocket ends in failure - SpaceNews</a></h5> <h5><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/13/21507204/nasa-artemis-accords-8-countries-moon-outer-space-treaty" target="_blank">US and seven other countries sign NASA’s Artemis Accords to set rules for exploring the Moon - The Verge</a></h5>

136: Don’t Tell the Boss

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