Welcome to SciShow Tangents Rewind! Each week, we'll be bringing you an old episode of the show, in original airing order. Whether you're listening through for the first time or rediscovering old favorites, there's something for everyone! Enjoy!

What do the Hubble Space Telescope, the International Space Station, and the Moon have in common? They’re all satellites that orbit the Earth! This week, we’re going extraterrestrial to talk about the dreams, discoveries, and debacles that went into Mir and other weirdly cool human-made satellites. Plus, we dig into burning questions, like whether the Sun can be considered a satellite. And we’re big enough space nerds that we try to explain some celestial mechanics.

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Sources:

[Truth or Fail]

[Fact Off]
Film Satellites:
https://www.cia.gov/news-information/...
https://www.space.com/12996-secret-sp...
https://gizmodo.com/5994202/how-the-u...

Earwig wings:
https://www.ethz.ch/en/news-and-event...

[Ask the Science Couch]
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Fea...
http://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/spaceob...

0:00 Introduction
1:55 SCIENCE POEM
5:52 TRUTH OR FAIL
15:45 FACT OFF
25:35 ASK THE SCIENCE COUCH