Political earthquakes at NASA, Virgin Orbit partners with RAF, and a rifle wielding hoverboarder at the bastille day parade

Pick o' the Podcasts:

Main engine cut off: What does the political ousting of some of NASA's top guys mean, if anything? 

Planetary Radio: Meet Poppy Northcutt, the first woman to work as an engineer in Apollo Mission Control

From the video store:

It's true: Experiment confirms that in space no one can here you scream at your kids to clean their room: 

SpaceX Starhopper rocket ground test succeeds...ish:

Rise of the supervillians? Rifle carrying hoverboarder turns heads at the Bastille day parade:

Reading material:

Virgin Orbit agrees to provide RAF with fast, flexible launch service

Unexpected electric currents crackle through Jupiter's atmosphere 

Some new images from Chinese lunar mission here...

...and here

How to terraform Mars in segments 

Indian Moon mission launch delayed by fuel leak - next attempt Tuesday 22nd

Explosion of SpaceX capsule due to oxidiser leak - a fix is already underway

Chinese space station de-orbited

Private Lightsail-2 mission sends back more images of Earth before its sail deployment on Tuesday