Spaceflight news

— Direct lunar water observation (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (nature.com)

— OSIRIS-REx stores sample (spacenews.com) (asteroidmission.org) (asteroidmission.org)

Short & Sweet

— Launchspace to install debris collection payload on ISS. (spacenews.com)

— Ariane 6 needs additional funding. (spacenews.com)

— Falcon 9 launch abort conclusion. (spacenews.com) (cbsnews.com)

— NASA faces tough choice due to SLS’s slow progress. (space.com)

This week in SF history

— 9 Nov, 1967. Launch of Apollo 4 (wikipedia.org) (drewexmachina.com) (space.skyrocket.de)

— Ejectable film canisters were fairly complex machines (nasa.gov)

— Apollo 8 press kit (PDF: nasa.gov)

— Apollo 4 press kit (cdm16608.contentdm.oclc.org)

— Next week (11/10 - 11/17) in 1982. It was a lovely trip, but we were stuck indoors the whole time.