222 - Way to Gaureau (Presenting the 2025 Off-Nominees with Brendan Byrne)

Jake and Anthony are joined by Brendan Byrne, News Director at Central Florida Public Media and host of Are We There Yet?, to present the 2025 Off-Nominees: the most bizarre space news stories of the year. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 222 - Way to Gaureau (Presenting the 2025 Off-Nominees with Brendan Byrne) - YouTube The Off-Nominal Awards - Off-Nominal Eutelsat resolves OneWeb leap year software glitch after two-day outage - SpaceNews Jeff Foust on X: “NASA says there could be delays in the next Cygnus mission to the ISS after its shipping container sustained damage. NASA will alter the cargo manifest for the next cargo Dragon mission to put more consumables on it.” Isar Aerospace’s first Spectrum launch fails - SpaceNews Livestream: First test flight of Isar Aerospace - YouTube BOOM! ISAR Spectrum Rocket Launch Failure - YouTube Jeff Bezos Faceplants at Blue Origin Rocket Launch Capsule Landing Unpacking claims Jeff Bezos opening the Blue Origin capsule hatch was staged | Snopes.com Alpha FLTA006 "Message In A Booster" - YouTube [EXCLUSIVE] ERIS | Test Flight 1 SUCCESS | Gilmour Space Technologies - YouTube Air Safety #OTD by Francisco Cunha on X: “Here´s an international mess... Today, a Zambian-registered light aircraft, carrying 400 pounds of drugs with "SpaceX" labels, inbound from Colombia, crashed in Brazil, killing the pilot, who was Australian.” Before a Soyuz launch Thursday someone forgot to secure a 20-ton service platform - Ars Technica Katya Pavlushchenko on X: “New photos of the damaged launch pad at Site 31 of Baikonur Kosmodrome were published in Telegram channels and on Novosti Kosmonavtiki forum. Sad to see it like this.” R-7 ICBM/Soyuz rocket launch facilities in Baikonur Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera (Alex) on X: “More than two and a half years after the last Proton launch, another one is out on the pad for launch in a few days.” Jake’s Original Falcon Heavy Take Booster 18 suffers anomaly during proof testing - NASASpaceFlight.com Roscosmos replaces cosmonaut on next Crew Dragon mission to ISS - SpaceNews So how do Russian cosmonauts feel about Russia’s war on Ukraine? - Ars Technica NASA rebukes Russian use of space station for propaganda purposes [Updated] - Ars Technica Follow Brendan Brendan Byrne (@SpaceBrendan) / X Brendan Byrne Are We There Yet? : NPR Follow Off-Nominal Subscribe to the show! - Off-Nominal Support the show, join the Discord Off-Nominal (@offnom) / Twitter Off-Nominal (@offnom@spacey.space) - Spacey Space Follow Jake WeMartians Podcast - Follow Humanity's Journey to Mars WeMartians Podcast (@We_Martians) | Twitter Jake Robins (@JakeOnOrbit) | Twitter Jake Robins (@JakeOnOrbit@spacey.space) - Spacey Space Follow Anthony Main Engine Cut Off Main Engine Cut Off (@WeHaveMECO) | Twitter Main Engine Cut Off (@meco@spacey.space) - Spacey Space Anthony Colangelo (@acolangelo) | Twitter Anthony Colangelo (@acolangelo@jawns.club) - jawns.club 🐘 Off-Nominal Merchandise Off-Nominal Logo Tee WeMartians Shop | MECO Shop