Spaceflight News

— Artemis I progress (americaspace.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (nasa.gov)

— NASA history report on Administrator James Webb released (spacenews.com)

Short & Sweet

— China to test space-based solar power (spacenews.com)

— Canada to develop lunar rover for power generation (spacenews.com)

— ISRO tests Gaganyaan parachute system (isro.gov.in)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— Dec 5, 2014: The launch of EFT-1 (en.wikipedia.org) (americaspace.com) (youtube.com) (collectspace.com)

— The clue was taken from an interview with Sesame Street’s Elmo (youtube.com)

— Orion suffered more MMOD damage than models had predicted, resulting in changes to the vehicle for Artemis I (nasaspaceflight.com) (americaspace.com)

— Next week (12/6 - 12/12) in 2010. Feeling salty.