Spaceflight News

— Orion’s heat shield (americaspace.com) (nasa.gov)

Short & Sweet

— Tests of Russian Orbital Station core module announced (interfax.com)

— Ingenuity’s Crash Investigation (spacenews.com) (youtube.com) (youtube.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— Joel Rogers via email: Young and Crippen didn’t fly on Enterprise.

This Week in Spaceflight History

— December 17, 2012: Grasshopper makes its first real hop (spacenews.com) (en.wikipedia.org)

— Next week (1/1 - 1/6) in 1959: To the moon! Uh... to the Sun!