Spaceflight news

— Blue lawsuit (spacenews.com)

Short & Sweet

— Dragons Passing in the Night (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (blogs.nasa.gov)

— Shijian-21 has a companion (spacenews.com)

— A Chinese Mars Sample Return Mission (spacenews.com)

Questions, comments, corrections

— Ben Hallert: Speaking of expandable space stations... (twitter.com/chairboy)

This week in SF history

— 9 Nov, 1970: Launch of the Orbiting Frog Otolith (wiki) (skyrocket.de) (scribd.com)

— Next week (11/16 - 11/22) in 1973: I refuse to work under these conditions, at least my stomach does.