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Episode 221: Soul Source
This week in SF history
— 30 July 2008, first full firing of a Falcon 9 with all nine engines (spacex.com)
Spaceflight news
— NASA issues rare sole source contract to NGIS (spacenews.com, fbo.gov)
Short & Sweet
— Starhopper hopped (twitter.com/elonmusk) (youtu.be)
— Blue Origin fires its BE-7 lunar lander engine (geekwire.com)
— Lightsail-2 successfully deploys its sail and sends back imagery (planetary.org)