Spaceflight news

— China’s big Long March 5B (Chang Zheng 5B) flight

— — The flight (spaceflightnow.com)

— — The capsule landing (spaceflightnow.com)

— — Flexible Inflatable Cargo Re-entry Vehicle (spaceflightnow.com)

— — The unguided first-stage reentry (spaceflightnow.com)

Short & Sweet

— Next big step completed for Martian rover. (spaceflightnow.com)

— SN4 takes a step towards flight (twitter.com/elonmusk) (twitter.com/elonmusk) (twitter.com/elonmusk)

Questions, comments, corrections

— Email conversations about Artemis HLS with Andrew and Espen

Interview--Dan Hegel, Director of Advanced Development, Blue Canyon Technologies

— List of BCT’s Small Business Innovation Research contracts (sbir.gov)

— bluecanyontech.com

— instagram.com/bluecanyontech

— twitter.com/bluecanyontech

This week in SF history

— 15 May 1987. The failed launch of Polyus-Skif. (airspacemag.com) (astronautix.com) (youtube.com)

— Next week in 2000: No stones thrown