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Episode 185: Let it burn
This week in SF history
— November 21 1960: Mercury MR-1’s very short flight (youtube.com) (wikipedia.org)
Spaceflight news
— SLS program may be voluntarily ended. (businessinsider.com) (nextbigfuture.com)
— SpaceX will not be upgrading Falcon 9 second stage. (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/elonmusk)
Short & Sweet
— The FCC approves four large satellite constellations. (spacenews.com)
— Russia is looking into reusable rockets too. (parabolicarc.com)
— OSIRIS-REx unfurls its sampling arm for first time en route to Bennu (arstechnica.com)