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Episode 264: Ad Astra Per Justitia
Spaceflight news
— Loverro misconduct update (wsj.com via marketscreener.com)
— Kathy Lueders selected to lead HEO Mission Directorate (twitter.com/JimBridenstine) (arstechnica.com)
Short & Sweet
— InSight’s mole is fully underground (livescience.com) (reddit.com/r/InSightLander) (twitter.com/InSightImageBot)
— Northrup Grumman received contract to develop Gateway module (spaceflightnow.com)
— Raytheon gets a DARPA contract. (spacenews.com)
Questions, comments, corrections
— Ben Hallert: Demo-2 things (twitter.com/chairboy) (twitter.com/chairboy)
This week in SF history
— 1977 June 15: First shuttle SRB drop test from NB-52 Balls 8 (PDF: commons.erau.edu) (youtube.com)
— Next week in 1997: Full of menace, like a shark