

The Space Above Us
JP Burke
A podcast about the history of NASA human spaceflight. New episodes every other Thursday. (ish)
Episodes
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May 14, 2020 • 24min
107 - STS-41
Ulysses has a long journey ahead of it, and it all starts on Space Shuttle Discovery and STS-41!

Apr 30, 2020 • 28min
106 - STS-31
The Hubble Space Telescope is finally here and it's about to rewrite the textbooks. If we can just get it to clear the payload bay in one piece.

Apr 16, 2020 • 22min
105 - STS-36
Atlantis has something in its payload bay.. what it could be is anyone's guess!

Apr 2, 2020 • 31min
104 - STS-32
The Long Duration Exposure Facility has been waiting for its ride home for a while. Let's go catch it before it becomes the Short Duration Exposure to Reentry Conditions Facility.

Mar 19, 2020 • 20min
103 - STS-33
We end up with a shorter episode thanks to another classified flight. But if you need a sweet new PC, I think Huey can hook you up.

Mar 5, 2020 • 27min
102 - STS-34
Atlantis is back on the launchpad and has another interplanetary mission in its payload bay! Galileo is headed to Jupiter! Please set aside 110 days to download this episode.

Feb 20, 2020 • 25min
101 - STS-28
Columbia is back in the flight rotation with a mysterious spacecraft in the payload bay and a mysterious experiment in the middeck!

Feb 6, 2020 • 38min
100 - Q&A Special
The Space Above Us has reached 100 episodes! Let's take a break from space, spaceflight history, NASA, Project Mercury, the X-15, Project Gemini, the Apollo Program, Skylab, and the Space Shuttle, and answer some audience questions! That previous sentence definitely wasn't crafted to make the show more discoverable to space nerds.

Jan 23, 2020 • 24min
099 - STS-30
After nearly ten years, NASA is launching another interplanetary probe! Magellan is headed to Venus and it's catching a ride with Space Shuttle Atlantis

Jan 9, 2020 • 24min
098 - STS-29
Yes, we went from STS-27 right to STS-29. Discovery is flying again with a TDRS to deploy, some pipes to shake up, and a John Blaha to defend.


