In this episode of The Spoondrift, host Asher Leomund discusses the recently announced Orbital Reef space station as well as the new Chinese space station, the Tiangong Space Station, that is being built and deployed into space.
Here are the articles referenced in the show:
“China has sent a female astronaut for a 6-month stay on its new space station”: https://www.npr.org/2021/10/15/1046307865/china-is-sending-a-female-astronaut-for-a-6-month-stay-on-its-new-space-station
“China's Tiangong space station”: https://www.space.com/tiangong-space-station
“Wang Yaping becomes first Chinese woman to complete spacewalk”: https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/07/china/china-first-female-spacewalk-wang-yaping-intl-hnk-scn/index.html
“Blue Origin says it will build an orbiting mixed-use business park in space”: https://www.npr.org/2021/10/25/1049077333/blue-origin-space-station-business-park-space-orbital-reef-bezos
Orbital Reef Press Release: https://www.orbitalreef.com/
