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Episode 262: No Loverro Lost
Spaceflight news
— Loverro quit! (spacenews.com) (spaceflightnow.com) (arstechnica.com) (washingtonpost.com)
— Crew Dragon launch prep (HT Andrew Z: nasaspaceflight.com) (planetary.org) (americaspace.com)
— Commercial crew is an amazing deal. (planetary.org)
— NASA & SpaceX: Journey to the Future to air May 25 at 9 p.m. PT/ET on Science and at 10 p.m. PT/ET May 26 on Discovery (deadline.com)
Short & Sweet
— WFIRST renamed after pioneering astronomer, Nancy Grace Roman (spacenews.com)
— Skyrora completes first full static firing in the UK in half a century (skyrora.com)
— Northrop Grumman gets a Space Force contract (spacenews.com)
— Relativity hires SpaceX executive to lead launch vehicle production (spacenews.com)
Questions, comments, corrections
— Ben Hallert on Artemis orbit limitations (twitter.com/chairboy)
— Also quoted in an article on the cult of Elon Musk (theatlantic.com)
This week in SF history
— 1971 May 30: launch of Mariner 9 (sci-hub.tw) (en.wikipedia.org) (space.skyrocket.de)
— Next week in 1966: “Not just any port in a storm.”