Episode 431: Roller Coaster Tycoon

Spaceflight News— Gaganyaan in-flight abort test (youtube.com) (timesofindia.indiatimes.com) (HT: Jatan’s Space PDF: gov.in) (HT DeltaV: twitter.com/DJSnM) — Pad abort test (https://www.youtube.com) — Future human Indian Space ambitions (gov.in) (spacenews.com)Short & Sweet— PLD Test Launch (spacenews.com)— Two Vega payloads fail to deploy (europeanspaceflight.com)Questions, Comments, Corrections— From the intro: Shuttle astronaut mass allotments (forum.nasaspaceflight.com)This Week in Spaceflight History— October 28, 2009: Launch of the Ares I-X (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: ntrs.nasa.gov) (blogs.nasa.gov) (youtube.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)— Next week (10/31 - 11/6) in 2011: Warning: removing this sticker will void your experiment.