Spaceflight News

— Electron suffers upper stage failure (spacenews.com) (spaceflightnow.com) (youtu.be)

Short & Sweet

— Stoke Space hops (spacenews.com)

— Sierra Space does a burst test (spacenews)

— China plans for lunar sample return (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— A big thanks to Unc’willy, Fonji, Chris S in particular for helping Ben track down and fix an issue with our Discord bot

This Week in Spaceflight History

—  29 September, 2004: Flight 16P of SpaceShipOne (en.wikipedia.org) (sma.nasa.gov) (erikmadaus.medium.com) (airbum.com)

— Next week (10/10 - 10/16) in 2000: Four forbidden cough drops