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

December 18, 2025

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