Spaceflight News

— CAPSTONE safe mode update (advancedspace.com) (advancedspace.com) (spaceflightnow.com)

Short & Sweet

— SLD lander RFP (spacenews.com)

— NASA requests private missions (spacenews.com)

— ArianeGroup reveals reusable crewed vehicle for Ariane 6 (twitter.com/EuropeSpace360) (HT ArcadeEngineer: twitter.com/Melissandre_L)

— Morpheus Space raises funds (spacenews.com)

Interview – Araz Feyzi, Kayhan Space Co-Founder and CTO

— twitter.com/kayhanspace

This Week in Spaceflight History

— Sept 26, 1983: Pad Abort of Soyuz T-10A (en.wikipedia.org) (russianspaceweb.com) (americaspace.com) (PDF: starsem.com)

— Next week (9/27 - 10/3) in 2011: Wait two months for a robot, seven months for a human