Spaceflight news

— ISS’s crew of ten (spacepolicyonline.com) (spacenews.com)

— Rocket Lab to test booster recovery from space this May (rocketlabusa.com)

— Two new Chinese spaceports planned (spacenews.com)

— End-to-end testing of Lunar Gateway SEP system completed (americaspace.com)

Short & Sweet

— Space startup Phase Four wins government contract (spacenews.com)

— Biden administration asks for 6.3% increase to NASA’s budget (spacepolicyonline.com)

— JWST packs its sunshield in preparation for October launch (satnews.com)

— Ingenuity Flight 1 delayed (spacenews.com)

Questions, comments, corrections

— Ben Hallert via Discord: Spacelab isn’t Skylab.

— From the intro: no more fairing catching (twitter.com/Erdayastronaut) (spacexfleet.com)

This week in SF history

— April 15, 2005: DART Collides with MUBLCOM (nasa.gov) (en.wikipedia.org)

— DART stands for Demonstration for Autonomous Rendezvous Technology

— MUBLCOM stands for Multiple Paths, Beyond-Line-of-Sight Communications

— Next week (4/20 - 4/26) in 1997: Reduce, reuse, recycle.