Spaceflight news

— Loverro quit! (spacenews.com) (spaceflightnow.com) (arstechnica.com) (washingtonpost.com)

— Crew Dragon launch prep (HT Andrew Z: nasaspaceflight.com) (planetary.org) (americaspace.com)

— Commercial crew is an amazing deal. (planetary.org)

— NASA & SpaceX: Journey to the Future to air May 25 at 9 p.m. PT/ET on Science and at 10 p.m. PT/ET May 26 on Discovery (deadline.com)

Short & Sweet

— WFIRST renamed after pioneering astronomer, Nancy Grace Roman (spacenews.com)

— Skyrora completes first full static firing in the UK in half a century (skyrora.com)

— Northrop Grumman gets a Space Force contract (spacenews.com)

— Relativity hires SpaceX executive to lead launch vehicle production (spacenews.com)

Questions, comments, corrections

— Ben Hallert on Artemis orbit limitations (twitter.com/chairboy)

— Also quoted in an article on the cult of Elon Musk (theatlantic.com)

This week in SF history

— 1971 May 30: launch of Mariner 9 (sci-hub.tw) (en.wikipedia.org) (space.skyrocket.de)

— Next week in 1966: “Not just any port in a storm.”