Spaceflight news

— Rocket Lab completes successful demonstration of mid-air capture. (rocketlabusa.com) (youtube.com) (spacenews.com)

— Tim Dodd published a great interview with Peter Beck (youtu.be)

Short & Sweet

— Mars helicopter has been attached to NASA rover. (nasa.gov)

— Starliner gets a second flight test. (spacenews.com)

— Long March Fails to loft Nusantara Dua (spacenews.com) (spaceflightnow.com)

— Masten Space Systems wins lunar lander award from NASA. (spacenews.com)

Questions, comments, corrections

— Chris Hofmann: It’s not LOX vents that have flares, it’s Methane.

— Ben Hallert and Chris Hofmann: Grasshopper didn’t explode, that was F9R dev (twitter.com/chairboy/)

— Ben Hallert: “Starpopper” was the same thing as SN1. (twitter.com/chairboy)

— Eric Blood via email: worm logo (PDF: nasa.gov)

— Apollo 13: Home Safe viewing party

— April 14, Tuesday at 7 p.m. Eastern

— Join us on Discord and Watch2Gether! (discordapp.com) (watch2gether.com)

This week in SF history

— 16 April 1965: first five-engine test stand firing of S-IC at MSFC (nasa.gov) (heroicrelics.org) (wikipedia.org)

— Next week in 1971: Like Jar-Jar and an off-cast 620C