Space news this week: Planetary protection may need updating, watch a fuel tank implode, coffee and hemp launch into space, Axiom Space plan the first all private mission, and loads more...

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Pick o' the podcasts

We Martians: Taking stock of planetary protection

Planetary radio: African eyes look to the cosmos

Main Engine Cut-Off: Let's talk about Starship

From the video store:

Watch SpaceX launch its most recent resupply mission to the ISS...

... and stick the latest landing of its Falcon 9 rocket

Pressure vessel for SpaceX's experimental 'Starship' rocket dramatically implodes during test:

One year on, see Crew Dragon's first demonstration mission again

Pluto encounter by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft from Enneagon on Vimeo:

Reading material:

Front Range Biosciences Launches Hemp and Coffee Tissue Culture Samples to Space

SpaceX to fly the first all private crew to the ISS, for Axiom Space (who plan to build their own space station).

Curiosity's 1.8 billion pixel mega panorama

Australian scientists develop satellite to detect bushfire risks

Eastern U.S. from orbit

New program predicts radiation storms 2 days in advance

Was early Earth a water world?

NASA plans send a rover to prospect for Lunar ice

Take a virtual look around Curiosity's Martian home

China's Yutu 2 lunar rover to head for the 'Basalt Zone'

Boeing Statement on Independent Review Team Recommendations for the Starliner Orbital Flight