Spaceflight news

— SN8 high-altitude flight (spacenews.com) (youtube.com) (youtube.com)

— SNM analysis/discussion (youtube.com)

— Accomplished all four main goals (twitter.com/elonmusk) (twitter.com/elonmusk) (twitter.com/elonmusk)

— Reduced goal altitude due to high atmosphere winds (HT Mike Stewart: nasaspaceflight.com)

Short & Sweet

— Artemis astronauts announced! (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)

— Two smallsats selected for 2025 NASA mission. (americaspace.com)

— Space RIDER’s construction contracts awarded. (spacenews.com)

This week in SF history

— 21 Dec, 2004. Maiden flight of Delta IV Heavy (spacedaily.com) (spaceref.com) (PDF: ulalaunch.com) (space.com)

— Launch footage (youtube.com)

— Next week (12/22 - 12/28) in 2003: 11 years and 5 kilometers.