Spaceflight news

— Mars Perseverance and Ingenuity on their way to Mars (spaceflightnow.com) (americaspace.com)

— SHERLOC calibration target includes spacesuit samples (collectspace.com)

— Crew Dragon is coming home (arstechnica.com)

Short & Sweet

— Airbus to build Mars sample return mission’s orbital element (spacenews.com)

— Cause of Rocket Lab’s recent launch failure has been identified (spaceflightnow.com)

— Hayabusa2 releases details on its extended mission (hayabusa2.jaxa.jp)

Questions, comments, corrections

— Andrew via email: Nuclear reactor on Moon (designdevelopmenttoday.com)

— Also from Andrew: Winged Gemini (woodtv.com)

— Alex via email: Michigan Spaceport (woodtv.com)

This week in SF history

— August 8, 1989: Launch of STS-28 (americaspace.com)