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Episode 66: The Artemis Missions in Specific (And Spaceflight in General)

NASA’s Space Launch System rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft launches on the Artemis I flight test.

Image: “NASA’s Space Launch System rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft launches on the Artemis I flight test, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, from Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s Artemis I mission is the first integrated flight test of the agency’s deep space exploration systems: the Orion spacecraft, Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, and ground systems. SLS and Orion launched at 1:47 a.m. EST, from Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)” (Source: Wikimedia Commons

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Episode 59: Dead Dinosaurs, Cockroach Sperm, and Monkey Testicles – A Science Sampler Platter for the New Year

Image: Male genital hook (left) and acrosomes on sperm cells (right) on Supella dominicana, described from amber. (Source: Poiner 2022)

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Episode 58: Where Do Insects Go When It’s Cold?

Photograph of a grylloblattid - an orange-y insect that looks kind of like a cricket - on a sheet of ice.

Image: “One of the world’s rarest and least understood insects, a grylloblattid ice crawler (Grylloblatta sp.). Photographed live at night on an ice field, Northern California, USA.” (Source: Wikimedia Commons, by way of Alex Wild – a very nice guy I met at a BugShot workshop one year)

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