Spaceflight News

— Lunar buggy selection (spacenews.com) (PDF: sam.gov VIA sam.gov) (twitter.com/DubnHG1) (nikkei.com)

Short & Sweet

— Dragonfly mission officially confirmed (nasa.gov)

— Mars Sample Revamp (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (spaceflightnow.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— Unc Willy: Cape launch complexes (discord.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 26 Apr, 2007. First flight of SOFIA (en.wikipedia.org) (747sp.com) (HT Colin: youtube.com)

— Next week (4/30 - 5/6) in 1999: Taped too tightly

Spaceflight News

— Last Delta IV heavy (spacenews.com) (americaspace.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (PDF: ulalaunch.com) (arstechnica.com)

Short & Sweet

— Relativity Space wins contract (spacenews)

— Japan secures a moon landing (spacenews)

— Max Space Modules (spacenews)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— Csaba via Discord: SOIR means "evening" in French, pretty clever pun (discord.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 19 Apr, 1975. Launch of Aryabhata satellite (lowyinstitute.org) (ursc.gov.in) (en.wikipedia.org)

— Next week (4/23 - 4/29) in 2007: Looking at stars through a wall

Spaceflight News

— Broken records and Starship’s near future (nasaspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)

Short & Sweet

— New Shepard Plans Crewed Flight (spacenews.com)

— Lunar Rover Mk 2 (spacenews.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

—  April 11, 2006: Arrival of Venus Express at Venus (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: sci.esa.int VIA sci.esa.int)

— Next week (4/16 - 4/22) in 1975: Add four to 100, multiply by eight, and then add 62,000

Spaceflight News

— Orbital Reef Rundown (nature.com) (PDF: star.spaceops.org VIA star.spaceops.org) (genesisesi.com)

— Artemis 3 now has 3 experiments (nasa.gov) (hou.usra.edu)

Short & Sweet

— A Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine flies for first time (HT Andrew Z: autoevolution.com)

— A Nascent Solution For Voyager 1 (spacenews.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 6 Apr, 1965: Launch of Intelsat I, the first commercial satellite in GEO (en.wikipedia.org) (boeing.com) (space.skyrocket.de) (astronautix.com VIA web.archive.org)

— Next week (4/9 - 4/15) in 2006: The mission that went to hell in 5 months

Spaceflight News

— Starship IFT-3 (spacenews.com) (twitter.com) (youtu.be)

Short & Sweet

— Euclid spacecraft addresses ice-buildup on optics (asdnews.com)

— Ariane 6 coming together (esa.int)

— Soyuz aborts at the pad (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: launch escape slide (youtube.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 17 Mar, 2002. Launch of GRACE spacecraft (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: nasa.gov) (esa.int) (skyrocket.de) (nasa.gov)

— Next week (4/2 - 4/8) in 1965: Catching GEO worms

Interview — Professor Dante Lauretta

— The Asteroid Hunter: A Scientist’s Journey to the Dawn of our Solar System (hachettebookgroup.com)

— facebook.com/AZAstrobiology

— threads.net/@azastrobiology

— instagram.com/azastrobiology

— Thanks to Grand Central Publishing (twitter.com/GrandCentralPub) (instagram.com/grandcentralpub)

Spaceflight News

— Stoke Space focusing on first stage (nasaspaceflight.com) (youtu.be)

Short & Sweet

— Tianhe’s solar arrays patched (space.com)

— Stratolaunch tests Talon (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)

— Starship Flight 3 on its way (spacenews.com) (space.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 16 Mar, 1966. Recovery of Veterok and Ugolyok, who to this day hold the record for longest canine spaceflight (Kosmos 110) (en.wikipedia.org) (ru.wikipedia.org) (veterok-ugolyok.gmik.ru) (astronaut.ru)

— Next week (3/19 - 3/25) in 2017: Dry, wet, and lumpy

Spaceflight News

— Last big IM-1 update (arstechnica.com) (twitter.com/jeff_foust)

Short & Sweet

— Orion has hatch problems (spacenews.com)

— ISRO plans for Mars helicopter (indiatoday.in)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— Varda landing footage (youtube.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 8 Mar, 2001. Launch of STS-102 (nss.org) (aiaa.org)

— Next week (3/12 - 3/18) in 1966: A 154 day mission, but only for the passengers

Spaceflight News

— IM-1 landing follow-up (spacenews.com) (youtube.com) (youtube.com)

Short & Sweet

— ISRO completes human-rating of engine (isro.gov.in)

— Software error responsible for Firefly’s off-nominal payload delivery (fireflyspace.com) (space.com)

— Varda’s capsule returns (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— Espen via email: IM-1’s fuel loading

 This Week in Spaceflight History

— 2 March 1965: Atlas Centaur AC-5 explosion (en.wikipedia.org) (science.nasa.gov) (ntrs.nasa.gov) (youtube.com)

— Next week (3/5 - 3/11) in 2001: The first ten-person spaceflight

Spaceflight News

— IM-1 launch (americaspace.com) (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (PDF: intuitivemachines.com)

Short & Sweet

— H3 completes first successful launch (spacenews.com)

— Voyager 1 still struggles to communicate (space.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— February 21 2008, Interception and destruction of USA-193 (thespacereview.com) (PDF: unoosa.org) (en.wikipedia.org)

— Next week (2/27 - 3/4) in 1965: Technically, that was highly elliptical

Spaceflight News

— Dream Chaser readies for first flight (nasaspaceflight.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)

Short & Sweet

— Viasat-3 pushes forward (spacenews.com)

— Lessons from Artemis 1 (spacenews.com)

— X-37B’s orbit speculation (arstechnica.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— 2002 VE68 was officially named Zoozve! (alex-foster.com) (radiolab.org) (radiolab.org)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 15 February, 1996: Failed launch of Intelsat 708 (en.wikipedia.org) (youtube.com) (thespacereview.com) (thespacereview.com) (smithsonianmag.com) (HT Dennis O: web.archive.org)

— Next week (2/20 - 2/26) in 2008: And it’s picked off at the 380,000 yard line!