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Episode 303: Dramatic Concealed Conflagration
Spaceflight news
— Failed data bus on Crew Dragon (HT Kevin Smith: blogs.nasa.gov)
— SN11 landing failure (space.com) (twitter.com/Bojay_stellar) (twitter.com/TrevorMahlmann)
Short & Sweet
— Rocket Lab preparing for Moon Mission (twitter.com/RocketLab) (nasaspaceflight.com)
— Everyday people in space (spaceflightnow.com)
— NASA buys lunar gravity from Blue Origin (nasa.gov)
— HLS award should be here soon (spacenews.com)
Questions, comments, corrections
— From the intro: ingenuity deployed (space.com)
Last week in SF history
— 4 Apr, 1983: The launch of TDRS-A aboard STS-6 (space.nss.org) (spacefacts.de) (nasaspaceflight.com) (nasa.gov) (americaspace.com) (americaspace.com) (youtube.com)
— Footage of TDRS-E’s deployment in 1991 was shot with much better cameras (youtu.be)
— Next week (4/13 - 4/19) in 2005: Bullseye?