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Episode 259: Human Moon Landers
Spaceflight news
— NASA selects companies to develop Human Landing System (HLS) for Artemis (nasaspaceflight.com) (twitter.com/SciGuySpace)
— Source Selection Statement (PDF: beta.sam.gov)
— Scott Manley’s summary (youtube.com)
— Excellent scaled image of all HLS’s, and Apollo’s LEM (reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge)
— Superheavy update (twitter.com/Kristennetten)
— Prepping for Crew Dragon (spacenews.com)
— Flag to be captured: (reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge)
Short & Sweet
— UAE Mars mission arrives at launch site (nasaspaceflight.com)
— Starlink sun visor testing to begin. (spacenews.com)
— OmegA is ready to go into production. (spacenews.com)
— Rocket Lab tests at Wallops (spacenews.com)
This week in SF history
— May 8 1962: The First launch of Atlas-Centaur ends in an explosion (twitter.com/RocketRundown) (youtube.com) (wikipedia.org)
— Next week in 1987: Pew-pew boom