Spaceflight news

— NASA and the Giant Budget Reconciliation (spacenews.com)

— Starlink antennas again (spacenews.com)

— Thanks to Ben Hallert for the TCM! (twitter.com/chairboy)

— Chang’e 5 returned to the Moon (spacenews.com)

— Trajectory animation (twitter.com/coastal8049)

— Possible TCM Sunday 9/12, or maybe not (https://twitter.com/coastal8049)

Short & Sweet

— DOD wants to go nuclear (spacenews.com) (diu.mil)

— James Webb Space Telescope launch pushed to December (space.com) (planetary.org) (spacenews.com)

— Smoke detected in Zvezda module (reuters.com)

Questions, comments, corrections

— Anonymous source: Different ranges have different fts requirements. Federal ranges have fts handled by the space wing. Commercial range - kodiak - uses white sands missile range on contract as flight safety

— Asif Sadiqi’s book “Beyond Earth: A Chronicle of Deep Space Exploration 1958-2016” is free for download! (twitter.com/historyasif)

This week in SF history

— 18 Sept, 2013. Cygnus Demo mission launches (nasa.gov) (en.wikipedia.org)

— Orbital Sciences (now NG) won their CRS contract in 2008. (spaceflight101.com) (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: nasa.gov)

— Next week (9/21 - 9/27) in 2011: You ares on fire!