Spaceflight news

— Dream Chaser trunk, Shooting Star, finds its own life (americaspace.com) (sncorp.com) (space.com)

Short & Sweet

— Hayabusa2 now has a sample return date! (spaceflightnow.com)

— Florida’s Mk 2 Starship is being scrapped. (teslarati.com)

— Crew Dragon planned to return in early August. (spacenews.com)

Questions, comments, corrections

— From the intro: the closest images ever taken to the Sun (americaspace.com)

Interview-- Kathryn Crowe, NASA Human Landing System Deputy Lead for Integrated Performance

— twitter.com/kat_cr

— Linkedin.com

— Artemis (nasa.gov)

— Contractors on HLS (twitter.com/dynetics) (twitter.com/spacex) (twitter.com/blueorigin)

This week in SF history

— 23 July 1999: Launch of STS-93 (waynehale.wordpress.com) (astronautix.com) (spacefacts.de) (nasaspaceflight.com) (nasa.gov)

— Next week in 1980: “get to work” on Soyuz