222 - Way to Gaureau (Presenting the 2025 Off-Nominees with Brendan Byrne)

Jake and Anthony are joined by Brendan Byrne, News Director at Central Florida Public Media and host of Are We There Yet?, to present the 2025 Off-Nominees: the most bizarre space news stories of the year.

Topics

• Off-Nominal - YouTube
• Episode 222 - Way to Gaureau (Presenting the 2025 Off-Nominees with Brendan Byrne) - YouTube
• The Off-Nominal Awards - Off-Nominal
• Eutelsat resolves OneWeb leap year software glitch after two-day outage - SpaceNews
• Jeff Foust on X: “NASA says there could be delays in the next Cygnus mission to the ISS after its shipping container sustained damage. NASA will alter the cargo manifest for the next cargo Dragon mission to put more consumables on it.”
• Isar Aerospace’s first Spectrum launch fails - SpaceNews
• Livestream: First test flight of Isar Aerospace - YouTube
• BOOM! ISAR Spectrum Rocket Launch Failure - YouTube
• Jeff Bezos Faceplants at Blue Origin Rocket Launch Capsule Landing
• Unpacking claims Jeff Bezos opening the Blue Origin capsule hatch was staged | Snopes.com
• Alpha FLTA006 "Message In A Booster" - YouTube
• [EXCLUSIVE] ERIS | Test Flight 1 SUCCESS | Gilmour Space Technologies - YouTube
• Air Safety #OTD by Francisco Cunha on X: “Here´s an international mess... Today, a Zambian-registered light aircraft, carrying 400 pounds of drugs with "SpaceX" labels, inbound from Colombia, crashed in Brazil, killing the pilot, who was Australian.”
• Before a Soyuz launch Thursday someone forgot to secure a 20-ton service platform - Ars Technica
• Katya Pavlushchenko on X: “New photos of the damaged launch pad at Site 31 of Baikonur Kosmodrome were published in Telegram channels and on Novosti Kosmonavtiki forum. Sad to see it like this.”
• R-7 ICBM/Soyuz rocket launch facilities in Baikonur
• Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera (Alex) on X: “More than two and a half years after the last Proton launch, another one is out on the pad for launch in a few days.”
• Jake’s Original Falcon Heavy Take
• Booster 18 suffers anomaly during proof testing - NASASpaceFlight.com
• Roscosmos replaces cosmonaut on next Crew Dragon mission to ISS - SpaceNews
• So how do Russian cosmonauts feel about Russia’s war on Ukraine? - Ars Technica
• NASA rebukes Russian use of space station for propaganda purposes [Updated] - Ars Technica

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