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Guest Host Francis Rose and I discussed Space Show listeners choices for the top space projects of 2015.  We divided the topics into three categories, launch services, planetary missions, and human spaceflight.  Note that this program also contains the Dr. Space blooper of 2015!  Near the end of the segment, I remembered to give credit to the Japanese Space Agency for being able to save their Akatsuki satellite.  First, I forgot the name but to make matters worse, I initially said it was rescued and now orbiting Mercury. I immediately changed it back to Venus but in a sentence conveying uncertainty. I tried to get in a later word to correct my blooper but Francis had the last word and ended the segment.  I could have edited it out but then that would not have been very open and honest with all of you so there it is, my blooper of 2015, maybe of all time.  No need to email to tell me its Venus, not Mercury. I knew it at the time but bad history was made anyway.  For the rest of our Hotel Mars segment, I listed the projects most frequently mentioned by Space Show listeners in our multiple end of the year shows.  Both Blue Origin and SpaceX got tops in the launch industry for recovering their rocket and first stage.  Planetary missions included New Horizons, Dawn, Cassini and mentions of Kepler & Cassini.  The twins study and setting the American astronaut record for most time in space by Astronaut Scott Kelly were it for human spaceflight.

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