Spaceflight news

— Perseverance launch slips again (spacenews.com)

— Centaur has been repaired (twitter.com/thesheetztweetz)

Short & Sweet

— Rocket Lab suffers second-stage failure and loss of vehicle. (arstechnica.com) (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/RocketLab)

— ULA receives its first BE-4. (spacenews.com)

— First indigenous-owned ground station to be built in Australia (satnews.com)

Interview: John Z. Kiss, Professor of Biology and Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of North Carolina Greensboro

— twitter.com/jzk60

— linkedin.com

— UNC bio and publication list (biology.uncg.edu)

— Read more

— Exploratory study ahead of sending Arabidopsis on CLPS (content.sciendo.com)

— Feature article on Dr. Kiss’ work (researchmagazine.uncg.edu)

— TedX talk “Someday We Will Live on Mars) (youtu.be)

— Seedling Growth-2 (youtube.com)

— Seedling Growth-3 (nasa.gov)

This week in SF history

— 7 July 1998: first orbital launch from a sub (en.wikipedia.org)

— Based on R-29RM (en.wikipedia.org)

— Next week in 1975: How long does it take an astronaut to flip a patch upside-down? 7.5 hours.