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The Skeptics Guide #928 - Apr 22 2023

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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SpaceX's Starship Launch Cancelled Due to a Frozen Valve in the Pressurization System

The rocket was fully loaded before the countdown stopped around T minus 40 seconds. The launch team had rescheduled for this Thursday, which will be as you listen to this will be days ago, but Thursday, April 20th. SpaceX has been conducting subscale lower altitude atmospheric flight tests since 2019. Those launches focused on testing Starships, landing maneuver capabilities. It's very good that they were able to say, hey, we're not going to go. You know, it's not an absolutely have to go situation when it comes to SpaceX. Like they will absolutely scrub. They'll launch things that they're not even sure if they're going to survive the launch because this is all just

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