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    #73: No Party Beyond the Event Horizon

    May 22nd, 2018 · 43 minutes

    Jason talks about launching from the west coast of the United States, then Stephen takes the new SLS SEGMENT out for a spin before they discuss black holes.

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    Links and Show Notes

    Tiny, Mars-Bound Satellite Snaps Its First Image of Earth and the Moon
    NASA's planet-hunting TESS spacecraft snaps its first photo
    Tom Wolfe, 88, ‘New Journalist’ With Electric Style and Acid Pen, Dies - The New York Times
    Schedule for First SLS Core Stage Still Sliding – NASASpaceFlight.com
    Liftoff #20: The Lifecycle of our Sun: Like a M&M - Relay FM
    Lecture 20: Black Holes
    Black Holes: Crash Course Astronomy #33 - YouTube
    Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Commonwealth Fund Book Program) Reprint, Kip Thorne, Stephen W. Hawking - Amazon.com
    Interstellar (2014) - IMDb