Spaceflight news

— Rocket lab aims to recover booster (spacenews.com) (aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org) (rocketlabusa.com)

Short & Sweet

— Spacebit doesn’t hate wheels, but does love sharing data. (spacenews.com)

— Galactic Energy reaches orbit. (spacenews.com)

— Virgin Galactic enters final testing phase before operations. (spacenews.com)

— The Curse of Scrubtober Ends. (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com)

Interview--Mark Lester, President & CEO, Alaska Aerospace Corporation

— akaerospace.com

— witter.com/alaskaaerospace

— linkedin.com/in/mark-d-lester

This week in SF history

— 11 Nov, 1982. STS-5, the first operational Shuttle mission, and the first to deploy satellites. (newspapers.com) (wikipedia.org) (PDF: spacepresskit.files.wordpress.com)

— Next week in 2000: Hyper carbon-carbon plasma