This week in SF history
-- February 1, 1939: birth of Wally Funk (wikipedia.org)
Spaceflight news
-- Rocket Lab snuck in a third stage! (rocketlabusa.com)
---- Hid it in plain sight (reddit.com/r/RocketLab) (HT: Sam Moore b14643.de)
----- Curie engine puts out 120N thrust (popularmechanics.com)
---- Mike Brown doesn’t like it (HT Sam Moore: twitter.com/plutokiller)
-- Ariane 5 flies off course (spaceflightnow.com) (arstechnica.com) (spaceflight101.com)
Short & Sweet
-- Google Lunar Xprize is over (lunar.xprize.org)
-- Falcon Heavy has a launch date. (spacenews.com)
-- IMAGE found! (skyriddles.wordpress.com)
Questions, comments, corrections
-- /u/nerobro: dropping 1st stage engines is a false economy (reddit.com/r/orbitalpodcast)