Spaceflight news

— Astra makes it to space! (twitter.com/lorengrush) (spacenews.com) (space.com)

— Orbital parameters (HT Mike Stewart twitter.com/planet4589)

— Chang’e-5 sample recovery (spacenews.com)

— Now headed to L1 (with DSCOVR) (HT Sam in the chat: twitter.com/AJ_FI)

Short & Sweet

— Project Kuiper reaches a milestone (parabolicarc.com)

— CSA is sending two astronauts to the Moon (asc-csa.gc.ca) (spacenews.com)

Questions, comments, corrections

— Call for help reconstructing Apollo 10 software (github.com/virtualagc)

— Quick software setup guide and code structure/syntax overview (youtube.com)

This week in SF history

— 25 Dec, 2003. Beagle 2 lands on Mars (nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov) (wikipedia.org) (PDF: sci.esa.int)

— Next week (1/5 - 1/11)  in 1985: Headed for a first close to home.