Spaceflight news

— Astra readies for next orbital launch (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/Astra) (spacenews.com)

— Super Heavy Starship stacked! (twitter.com/StarshipGazer) (twitter.com/ErcXspace) (twitter.com/elonmusk) (twitter.com/RGVaerialphotos) (youtube.com)

— Perseverance’s first sampling attempt (spacenews.com) (​​nasa.gov) (twitter.com/PaulHammond51)

Short & Sweet

— China hops (spacenews.com)

— OFT-2 slipping from August? (HT DeltaV: twitter.com/SciGuySpace) (HT DeltaV: twitter.com/SciGuySpace) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)

— Blue Origin developing reusable second stage (arstechnica.com)

Questions, comments, corrections

— Another Eric Berger interview on MECO (HT AZ: podcastaddict.com)

Dragonfly interview (HT AZ: forbes.com)

— Watch party! The High Frontier: The Untold Story of Gerard K. O’Neill. Friday Aug 27 6pm ET (calendar.google.com)

Interview -- Danny Gleeson, Co-founder and Chief Commercial Officer of Réaltra Space Systems Engineering

— realtra.space

— twitter.com/realtraspace

— linkedin.com/in/dannyjgleeson

This week in SF history

— 10 Aug, 1966. Launch of Lunar Orbiter 1, first U.S. spacecraft to orbit the Moon (en.wikipedia.org) (nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov) (history.nasa.gov)

— Next week (8/17 - 8/23) in 1993. Move that parking cone over there.