On The Space Show for Wednesday, 8 May 2024:

Australian Space News:

* The successful launch of HyImpulse's SR75 paraffin-fuelled suborbital rocket from Southern Launch’s Koonibba Test Range in South Australia

* Alan Shepard and "Light This Candle"

* Funding for Australian-Indian space projects. (Inserts courtesy SDU)

Boeing CST-100 Starliner first crewed orbital flight test:

* The stand-down of the launch attempt due to a Centaur valve problem

* A profile of astronaut Sunita Williams

* How the CST-100 will land.

China’s Chang'e 6 lunar sample return mission:

* Descriptions of the Chang'e 6 spacecraft, including the foreign instruments and sub-satellite

* Mission launch coverage. (Inserts courtesy CGTN)