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Failure To Launch Podcast

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A podcast for learning about all the bad things that happened to people who went up. www.patreon.com/failuretolaunch

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Failure To Launch Podcast @failuretolaunch.bsky.social · 4h
New episode! We sat down to talk about asteroid Ulysses 1994XF04, how the world (sort of) came together to mitigate its impact, and how every shield against it was turned into a weapon. [This is a fictional Ace Combat bonus episode] www.patreon.com/failuretolau...
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I do not much like the Federation of Central Usea (FCU). They’ve done some bad things.
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Failure To Launch Podcast @failuretolaunch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Coming around to the idea that all those US vetbro companies that put MiGs and Flankers on their stuff are just big Ace Combat fans and spiritually Osean
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James Pitt @sahelanth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Musk’s gonna buy Katanga Province. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Np2n...
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Failure To Launch | Episode 22: OTRAG (Part 1, W. Nate Bethea) [Audio Only]
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Failure To Launch Podcast @failuretolaunch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We went on House of Pod with @kavehmd.bsky.social to talk about space medicine! Long story short: space sucks and we should all be appreciative for the lunatics who go up there so we don't have to.
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Failure To Launch Podcast @failuretolaunch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Glancing nervously at the ESA site in French Guiana
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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oil companies rushing to update their investor prospecti. "Uh, we could also destroy the world, you know!"
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Failure To Launch Podcast @failuretolaunch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
<< It's time. >>
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Failure To Launch Podcast @failuretolaunch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We went on House of Pod with @kavehmd.bsky.social to talk about space medicine! Long story short: space sucks and we should all be appreciative for the lunatics who go up there so we don't have to.
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The House of Pod @kavehmd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Puffy Face Chicken Leg Syndrome (and Other Space Delights) Discussing what happens to the human body when it goes to a place it was never intended to be! Also, why even go in the first place! With the gents from @failuretolaunch.bsky.social Links: tinyurl.com/3zmfsc9d
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Jodrell Bank @jodrellbank.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Two months on from the announcement about Jodrell Bank Observatory's future funding, almost £50,000 has been raised thanks to your generosity. While discussions continue, no solution is yet in place. Help protect Jodrell Bank with a donation: donate.manchester.ac.uk/p/jodrellba…
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Space Launch System Block II - From Kevin M. Gill (kevinmgill.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/qTiFYL
The Space Launch System Block II (cargo) on the eve of it's first launch.

Rendered in Blender 2.71 and post processed in Photoshop. Background sky credit: Stephanie M. Gill
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Matt Lowne @mattlowne.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
New KSP video! How do relays, comms, scanners, etc. WORK in KSP?? All of this and more will be answered with today's video, where I take on the challenge of presenting a complete guide to Relays, CommNet, Remote-control and KerbNet! Enjoy! youtu.be/N4AjzRlRnh0
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KSP: How COMMNET, RELAYS and KERBNET Actually Work!
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Dwayne Day @kennen11.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My article in The Space Review next week is a fun one: a 1961 study to put nuclear weapons in orbit for attacking the Soviet Union. Never reported before.
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Failure To Launch Podcast @failuretolaunch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Space-specific reminder that a whopping one [1] dude was executed for crimes committed in the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp and rocket factor.
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Matt 'Wib' Ward @wib.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Playing Tetris the other day reminded me of my favourite little bits of Tetris trivia: You know how there's the shuttle launch cutscene in Tetris? Well it's not a US Space Shuttle, it's specifically a Soviet Energia-Buran.
The shuttle launch cutscene in the Game Boy Tetris gameAn Energia-Buran on the launch pad.
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
is uh Isaacman recommissioning an SR-71 so he can fly in it
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An SR-71 Blackbird Has Vanished (Updated)
The head of NASA recent teased a new X-plane with an image that recalled the iconic Blackbird. Now one is missing.
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Failure To Launch Podcast @failuretolaunch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Seeing all the Tuberville pilot stuff. Staring at the astronaut corps expectantly.
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Failure To Launch Podcast @failuretolaunch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Getting psyched for Ace Combat 8 so decided to make myself sad to balance it out. Zhukovsky Airport, Moscow. Just tons of experimental aircraft and Soviet-era prototypes left to rust.
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Andrew Parsonson @andrewparsonson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DLR has shipped the nose cone for the Callisto reusable rocket demonstrator to CNES for integration ahead of the vehicle's initial hop tests in 2027. europeanspaceflight.com/callisto-reu...
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Callisto Reusable Rocket Demonstrator Takes Shape Ahead of 2027 Hop Test
DLR has shipped the nose cone for the Callisto reusable rocket demonstrator to CNES for integration ahead of the vehicle's initial hop tests in 2027.
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Gene J. Mikulka @genejm1017.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🧵 I kind of remember "yours truly" getting shellacked by the SpaceX "religious zealots" over on the former bird site about the number of possible commercial launches per year. How much lift capacity do we really need, and where is the profit sweet spot? Same with this goal of 1000 launches a year 1/
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China Space Watch @chinaspace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
China’s Tiangong Space Station crosses in front of Jupiter in this remarkable astrophotography shot. Just hundreds of kilometres above Earth, Tiangong appears in front of Jupiter, a world hundreds of millions of kilometres away. Captured by 沈老思347
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AntiDr @antidr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Corrupt imbecile says idiotic thing is a better title
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Usili (Talia) 🏳️‍⚧️ @usili.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
'An Ace Combat TV series/movie' What did she know.
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Failure To Launch Podcast @failuretolaunch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
After how much people liked the Jack Parsons Tarot Card, we decided to continue the series with Project Albert (The Tower) and more monthly poster releases. We're also releasing the full-size images on our Patreon for all tiers or one-off purchase. Thanks to @filmfroghand.bsky.social for the art!
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Mike Feher @saxmike71.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’m shocked, I tell you: @genejm1017.bsky.social www.wesh.com/article/arte...
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Artemis III launch about 3 months behind schedule, NASA administrator says
The launch of Artemis III is about three months behind schedule, according to an email sent Sunday to NASA employees by Administrator Jared Isaacman.
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China Space Watch @chinaspace.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
HEO's Space Based Imaging captured this shot of China's Tiangong Space Station as it passed over the coast of Hawaii. At 12 cm/px resolution, we can see the expected configuration of the CSS, with its solar array wings deployed and all science modules
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Lesbian Al Gore @brickett6.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
@failuretolaunch.bsky.social is it good when someone says this
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Failure To Launch Podcast @failuretolaunch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
After how much people liked the Jack Parsons Tarot Card, we decided to continue the series with Project Albert (The Tower) and more monthly poster releases. We're also releasing the full-size images on our Patreon for all tiers or one-off purchase. Thanks to @filmfroghand.bsky.social for the art!
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Harry Stranger @spacefromspace.com · 24/09/2026
Taken 62 years ago today on September 24, 1964, a KH-7 spy satellite photograph showing early signs of the first soviet N-1 launch pad under construction at Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. The nearby rocket assembly building is visible under construction. spacefromspace.com/declassified...
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
usually when i hear people say that the moon is a planet, i just have to shake my head. like, yes, if it’s a full moon? okay. you’ve got me there. a full moon is a circle and therefore a planet. outside of that, though, a planet either has to be a circle, like jupiter, or a dot, like stars
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Anatoly Zak @anatolyzak.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In his report to the Prime Minister yesterday, Roskosmos head announced ~60 satellites launched in 2026 and the total in orbital grouping reaching ~400, though 300 satellites were claimed to be in orbit in 2025. So, not sure how this math works. CONTEXT: russianspaceweb.com/2026.html
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Tim @timzhu.io · 23/09/2026
they want to be Jack Parsons so bad...
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Failure To Launch Podcast @failuretolaunch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
𝗤𝗨𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬: Modern fascists have based a lot of their ideology on freaky fanfiction and old scifi. If you were to start a political ideology, what 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 piece of fiction or fanfiction are you basing it on? (I still maintain that DDS would rule as a mercenary company name)
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Failure To Launch Podcast @failuretolaunch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New episode! The modern space industry is dominated by billionaires, reactionaries, and out-and-open fascists. So we sat down with @thebigzeo.bsky.social to figure out what makes them tick. Turns out it's weird fanfiction and not understanding classic scifi.
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Technofascism & Space
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Notorious RBMK @comraderobot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
we’re putting cows in contexts you people wouldn’t believe
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Beyond the Breakers Podcast @beyondthebreakers.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
@canuckisaslur.preg4pay.biz stopped by
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Nick Stevens @nick-stevens.com · 19/09/2026
Soviet Poster "Overtaking Time"
Poster with 3 futuristic planes.
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Matt Lowne @mattlowne.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
New KSP video! Today, I set up a Keostationary (i.e. Geostationary but it's Kerbin not Earth) satellite network, and show you how you can to, without the need for any mods! Enjoy! youtu.be/e9qxKAx96yU
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KSP: How To Create a KEOSTATIONARY Relay Network!
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Rosemary @athenarose.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I have been listening to @failuretolaunch.bsky.social's backlog for a few days and the jokes about Korolev's hemorrhoid surgery never gets old.
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yellowstoneten @yellowstoneten.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
and if anyone wants a podcast-shaped introduction to listen to on the drive home, there's a @failuretolaunch.bsky.social series: open.spotify.com/episode/4I5G...
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Part 1: Jack Parsons, The Satanist Rocket Visionary
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Failure To Launch Podcast @failuretolaunch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 16/09/2026
Frog blasted through the air by the blast-off of NASA's LADEE spacecraft. Sep 7, 2013
Original NASA photo of an airborne frog flying through the air silhoutted against the fiery plume of launch exhaust as NASA's LADEE spacecraft lifts off from Pad 0B at NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on Sept. 7, 2013 | 03:27:00 UT (Sept. 6, 2013 | 11:27 p.m. EST).
The photo team confirmed the frog is real and was captured in a single frame by one of the remote cameras used to photograph the launch.Closeup crop of the poor frog, spread eagle as its blasted through the air
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Failure To Launch Podcast @failuretolaunch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Happy Chinese Space Gang War Day, to all who celebrate (We missed 915 Day so I'm celebrating 916 Day instead)
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Failure To Launch Podcast @failuretolaunch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New bonus episode! This week, Scribe Quintus is taking the Chrises through the history of the USSA Mars Shot Project from Fallout and the shady work going on at ArcJet Systems. You can unlock the episode by signing up on the FTL patreon at any tier!
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The USSA Mars Shot Project (Fallout) | Failure To Launch
The USSA Mars Shot Project (Fallout) by Failure To Launch on Patreon. Join Failure To Launch 's community for exclusive content and updates.
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Failure To Launch Podcast @failuretolaunch.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
New episode! To celebrate our 5th anniversary as a show, we're going back to our first topic: all the monkeys named Albert who flew on captured V-2 rockets and died in the attempt.
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Flight of the Alberts [5th Anniversary Special]
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Failure To Launch Podcast @failuretolaunch.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I want this but for the veterans of the 915/916 War. Wang Bingzhang, Yao Tongbin. They've already got Qian up there
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Komodo Dad @komododad.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Repost to strike fear in the heart of your UK mutuals:
A screenshot of Conservative UK politician Michael Gove as the Prime Minister in the Sky TV documentary series The Wargame"
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Failure To Launch Podcast @failuretolaunch.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
She wanted to be included in the recording
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This still makes no sense and will have real negative impacts on rover operations on Mars
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