On STS-87 we've got a bunch of material science in the payload bay, a free-flying satellite, a camera that fell out of Star Wars, and 645,500 friends! We also get to the bottom of a significant mishap.

Here's the link to that AERCam video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtmQyAifHj0

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Dave Wolf's stint on Mir is going pretty smoothly, but when he performs his first EVA we find cause to go on a mini deep dive into the history of the station's airlock. That's definitely not ominous, right?

Show notes: https://thespaceabove.us/episodes/ep173_nasa-6_pt2

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