Spaceflight news

— Demo-2 mission: Endeavor docks with ISS (spacenews)(twitter.com/lorengrush)

— A bell in Unity is rung twice to announce the arrival and departure of vehicles (twitter.com/planet4589)

— A fantastic CollectSpace thread with lots of suit zipper images (collectspace.com)

— Note that the A7L Apollo suit had the pressure zipper on the outside. The inside zipper was just to close the garment

— Crew Dragon/Falcon 9 believed to have lower risk factor than Shuttle (spacenews.com)

— Mark 3 parachutes (spacenews.com)

Short & Sweet

— Virgin Orbit’s first launch attempt fails. (spacenews.com)

— Launch vehicle for China’s Mars mission arrives at space center. (spacenews.com)

This week in SF history

— 8 June, 1966: Saturn 500F moved from the pad to the VAB as Hurricane Alma approached (drewexmachina.com) (wikipedia.org)

— The famous tennis shoe test (youtube.com)

— Next week in 1977: Bombs away!