This fortnight: damage to the Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico, a Mars sample return proposal and the final two Mercury flights.
Links and Show Notes Cassini Vanishes Into Saturn, Its Mission Celebrated and Mourned - The New York Times Goodbye Cassini - YouTube How Not to Land an Orbital Rocket Booster - YouTube What to expect from Elon Musk’s Mars colonization update this week - The Verge EGO-Virgo on Twitter: "A very exciting LIGO-Virgo Observing run draws to a close on the 25th of August - https://t.co/GWJXORx4KJ https://t.co/ilUKoCUx3P"LIGO-Virgo
Puerto Rico's Arecibo Radio Telescope Suffers Hurricane Damage : The Two-Way : NPR NASA proposes rapid Mars sample return architecture - SpaceNews.com