Spaceflight news

— Starship SN8 fires a second (and third) time. (space.com) (youtube.com) (twitter.com/elonmusk)

— Crew-1 certified (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (americaspace.com) (two parter: americaspace.com / americaspace.com)

Short & Sweet

— Upgraded version of Sherpa tug to fly in mid-2021. (spacenews.com) (satnews.com)

— Bridenstein expected to turn down a continued position. (spacenews.com) (aviationweek.com)

— Mars Sample Return may be delayed. (spacenews.com)

— First Falcon Heavy Extended Fairing sold. (spacenews.com)

Questions, comments, corrections

— Ben Hallert: Gnome Chompski is 15 cm, not 15 mm (twitter.com/chairboy)

— From the intro: Congress does not authorize SOFIA sunset (spacenews.com)

This week in SF history

— 21 November 2000: Launch of EO-1, Earth Observing 1 (phys.org) (en.wikipedia.org) (earthobservatory.nasa.gov) (space.skyrocket.de)

— Lots of thanks to Emory Stagmer for presenting this week’s topic! (twitter.com/vaxheadroom)

— Next week (11/24 - 11/30) in 1965: Medaille de Bronze