Spaceflight news

— Europa Clipper might not fly on SLS (spacenews.com)

Short & Sweet

— Ball Aerospace successfully completes green-fueled smallsat mission. (smallsatnews.com)

— Blue Origin delivers its lunar lander mockup. (spacenews.com)

— SpaceX sets a reuse record. (spacenews.com)

Questions, comments, corrections

— Brian Kostka via email: there was an "iron lung" on Skylab!

This week in SF history

— 25 Aug, 2003. Launch of Spitzer Space Telescope (wikipedia.org) (irsa.ipac.caltech.edu)

— Next week in 1977: Top-heavy but retired.