Spaceflight news

— First Perseverance sample collection (spacenews.com) (nasa.gov) (nasa.gov)

— “Where Is The Rover” map, featuring Ingenuity (mars.nasa.gov)

Short & Sweet

— Shenzhou 12 crew returns to Earth (spaceflightnow.com)

— Vande Hei to remain on ISS (spacenews.com)

— NASA awards five companies for Lunar Lander studies (spacenews.com)

Questions, comments, corrections

— From the intro: Inspiration4 (spacenews.com)

— Are you free Sep 21-23? Sit in on a NIAC session! (nasa.gov)

This week in SF history

— 24 Sept, 2011: UARS burns up on re-entry (en.wikipedia.org) (directory.eoportal.org)

— Next week (9/28 - 10/4) in 2001: A first from the last frontier.