Spaceflight News

— Evolution Space becomes 9th private U.S. company to reach space (twitter.com/evolutionspace_) (parabolicarc.com)

— UP Aerospace rocket rapidly RUDs (gizmodo.com) (youtube.com)

— Incredible footage of payload separation was captured in 2015 (HT Stygarfield: reddit.com) (nasa.gov)

— Swedish rocket lands in Norway (reuters.com)

Short & Sweet

— Dragonfly faces proposed 20% budget cut (spacenews.com)

— New prospects for New Horizons (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— Espen via email: Starship engine data loss, AFTS activation time

— Andy Z via email: Starship separation flip

— Anderson via DM: Sea launch vs pad reconstruction (HT VaxHeadroom: twitter.com/RyanHansenSpace)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 13 May, 1998. AsiaSat-3’s lunar flyby (en.wikipedia.org)  (patents.google.com) (carlkop.home.xs4all.nl) (novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru VIA web.archive.org)

— The DM-2M failure was caused by a duct failure between the gas generator and pump turbine (ilslaunch.com)

— Next week (5/16 - 5/22) in 2011: Pass the baton