Spaceflight news

— Discovery Program selects four finalists (nasa.gov) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)

— DAVINCI+ (PDF: hou.usra.edu) (wikipedia.org)

— IVO (PDF: hou.usra.edu) (wikipedia.org)

— Trident (PDF: hou.usra.edu) (wikipedia.org) (HT Sam in the chat: forum.nasaspaceflight.com)

— VERITAS (PDF: dlr.de) (wikipedia.org)

— Abstracts for the other proposals (HT sam in the chat: forum.nasaspaceflight.com)

Short & Sweet

— JAXA selects partner for country’s first debris removal project (spacenews.com)

— Spaceway-1 has been safely decommissioned. (spacenews.com)

Questions, comments, corrections

— Ben Hallert on AS-103/Pegasus (twitter.com/chairboy)

— Also, Iranian space suit (twitter.com/fab_hinz) (apnews.com)

— Espen via email: Starship and Starliner presser

— Interesting article we forgot to mention! (forrestheller.com)

— Correct pressure numbers (twitter.com/elonmusk)

— Lovarro quote (twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF)

— Andrew via email: thoughts on Starliner

This week in SF history

— February 19, 1932: birth of Joe Kerwin (wikipedia.org)

— A13 quotes mentioned (hq.nasa.gov)

— Next week in 1936: white hot stick