2025.08.27 | Sixty years since the record breaking flight of Gemini V

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 27 August 2025:

Turn Back Time:

* Sixty years since the record breaking flight of Gemini V.

* Fifty years since the launch of the Viking 1 & 2 missions to Mars.

Space Show News:

* Starship Flight 10.

* NOAA’s Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) satellites and other Earth observation satellites.

The five satellites scheduled in the fleet are the currently-flying NOAA/NASA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite, NOAA-20, previously known as JPSS-1, NOAA-21, previously known as JPSS-2, and the upcoming JPSS-3 and JPSS-4 satellites.

(Audio insert courtesy of NESDIS)