The Space Above Us

JP Burke
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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!
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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.
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Apr 16, 2020 • 22min

105 - STS-36

Atlantis has something in its payload bay.. what it could be is anyone's guess!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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
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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.

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