Short & Sweet

— Space Operations Mission Directorate and Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate split (spacenews.com) (arstechnica.com)

— Starliner likely to slip to 2020 (spacenews.com)

Questions, comments, corrections

— From the intro: New Glenn hardware! (HT Andy Z: floridatoday.com)

Interview -- Othniel C. Mbamalu, Founder and CEO of Advanced Rockets Corporation

— Airbreathing.space

— twitter.com/RocketsAdvanced

— othnielcreator.com

— twitter.com/othnielcreator

This week in SF history

— 30 Sept, 2001. First orbital launch from Pacific Spaceport Complex - Alaska (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: nasa.gov) (astronautix.com)

— DeltaV: recommendation for VASTS, particularly Langley Experience (vsgc.odu.edu)

— Launched on an Athena I rocket (wikipedia.org)

— Starshine 3 was a hobby radio repeater/disco ball (en.wikipedia.org)

— DoD Space Test Program sats included PICOSat and Sapphire (en.wikipedia.org) (en.wikipedia.org) (en.wikipedia.org)

— PCSAT was an APRS repeater operated by midshipmen (aprs.fi)

— Next week (10/5 - 10/11) in 1967: This event in spaceflight history requires a total of 88 articles if you want the whole story.