Short & Sweet

— Astra to launch next from Cape Canaveral (spacenews.com)

— SpaceX gets FCC approval for Starship launch, starts construction on launchpad (dailymail.co.uk) (spaceflightnow.com)

— NASA investigates Ingenuity helicopter’s transmission problem (cnet.com)

— SpaceX Crew-5 to fly with cosmonaut (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/Rogozin)

This week in SF history

— 15 Dec, 1976. Launch of Kosmos 881 and Kosmos 882 (en.wikipedia.org) (1lib.us) (google.com/books)

— Next week (12/21 - 12/27) in 1979. Some vikings and their kitty cat.