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    #84: Emotions of Distant Galaxies

    November 6th, 2018 · 59 minutes

    NASA says goodbye to two spacecraft and Stephen and Jason review First Man.

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    Links and Show Notes

    We decoded NASA’s messages to aliens by hand - YouTube
    How to decode the images on the Voyager Golden Record / Boing Boing
    Oct. 27 Gyro Update: NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Returns to Science | NASA
    Hubble Finds Smiling Face in a Hunt for Newborn Stars | NASA
    It's Over For Kepler. The Most Successful Planet Hunter Ever Built is Finally out of Fuel and Has Just Been Shut Down. - Universe Today
    Liftoff #30: Talking Kepler with Natalie Batalha - Relay FM
    TESS Overview
    Dawn Mission | News | NASA's Dawn Mission to Asteroid Belt Comes to End
    A Soyuz crew makes an emergency landing after rocket fails | Ars Technica
    Russian official says Soyuz rocket failure caused by an errant sensor | Ars Technica
    First Man (2018) - IMDb
    Buzz Aldrin Has Some Thoughts About 'First Man' and the Flag