Spaceflight news

— Gateway Logistics Services Program awarded to SpaceX (arstechnica.com) (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)

— Dragon XL (youtube.com) (twitter.com/Caspar_Stanley)

— OIG is investigating NASA’s acquisition strategy (twitter.com/NASAOIG)

— Crew Dragon Mk 3 Parachute Test (spacenews.com)

Short & Sweet

— NASA files a request for new engines. (spacenews.com)

— Astra suffers damage in pre-launch test. (spacenews.com)

Questions, comments, corrections

— Artemis-1 flight profile details

This week in SF history

— April 3, 1926: The birth of Gus Grissom (en.wikipedia.org)

— Tough and Competent speech (garrett.co.uk)

— Next week in 1962: sail and wheel

Spaceflight news

— Artemis-1 Orion tests complete (spacenews.com) (americaspace.com)

— Ships to KSC March 23 (twitter.com/NASAKennedy)

— Cubesat ridealongs (en.wikipedia.org)

Short & Sweet

— L3Harris wins NASA contract for LISA observatory. (nasa.gov) (Our interview on the LISA Pathfinder: theorbitalmechanics.com)

— Long March 7A is unsuccessful. (spaceflightnow.com)

— SpaceX launches Darksat, with lackluster results. (spacenews.com) (arxiv.org) (PDF: arxiv.org)

Questions, comments, corrections

— ICPS, not IUS (twitter.com/Jeff_Snively)

— From the intro: OneWeb considers bankruptcy (bloomberg.com)

This week in SF history

— March 24, 2006: HiRISE takes first test images of Mars (mars.nasa.gov) (mars.nasa.gov)

— Detector Chip Assemblies (DCAs) (PDF: asprs.org)

— Uses push-broom method (hirise.seti.org)

— Next week in 1926: Listen in for an audio clue

Spaceflight news

— RS-25 Testing (nasaspaceflight.com)

— Gateway officially non-critical for Artemis landing (spacenews.com)

Short & Sweet

— SpaceLogistics teams with DARPA on satellite servicing vehicle. (c4isrnet.com)

— ExoMars gets delayed. (spacenews.com)

Questions, comments, corrections

— Law Loving via email on Musk and Bezos

— Thanks to Emory Stagmer for the outro music! (twitter.com/VAXHeadroom)

This week in SF history

— March 18, 1965: The launch of Voskhod-2 (wikipedia.org) (airspacemag.com)

— Next week in 2008: McEwen’s baby

Spaceflight news

— Starliner update (spacenews.com) (youtube.com)

Short & Sweet

— Last minute scrub costs Astra the DARPA Challenge (spaceflightnow.com)

— DSCOVR resumes operations. (spaceflightnow.com)

— SLS scheduling update (spacenews.com)

Questions, comments, corrections

— Winning entry for the Mars 2020 naming contest (mars.nasa.gov)

— Destin’s ULA tour (youtube.com) (youtube.com)

This week in SF history

— 14 March, 1934. Birth of Eugene Cernan (wikipedia.org)

— Next week in 1965: No vacuum in a vacuum.

Spaceflight news

— SpaceX plans a mobile service tower (twitter.com/Falcon9Block5) (space.com)

— Starship SN-1 suffered pressure failure (twitter.com/JohnRand0061) (youtube.com)

— Artemis changes? (arstechnica.com)

— “This is not the plan.” says Bridenstine re Moon 2024 Mission Manifest (twitter.com/JimBridenstine)

Short & Sweet

— NASA's safety advisory panel finds Boeing didn't perform end-to-end software check prior to Starliner demo mission. (orlandosentinel.com) (twitter.com/ChabeliH) (twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF)

— OmegA’s second stage has been test fired. (spacenews.com)

— MEV-1 performs first ever docking between commercial spacecraft. (c4isrnet.com) (twitter.com/northropgrumman)

Questions, comments, corrections

— Paul via email: Lousma pronounced like “lousy.”

— Jason Friesen via email: Skylab rescue was a totally different mission from Skylab-4! (en.wikipedia.org)

This week in SF history

— March 10, 2006: MRO enters Mars orbit (wikipedia.org)

— Next week in 1934: Puppetteer

Spaceflight news

— InSight’s HP3 to get a lil push (www.dlr.de) (twitter.com/NASAInSight) (mars.nasa.gov)

Short & Sweet

— JAXA going forward with sample return mission to Phobos. (spaceflightnow.com)

— SpaceX has a date for a polar launch from the Cape. (teslarati.com)

— CSLI, selects the next round of 18 smallsats to fly on ELaNa missions (nasa.gov)

Questions, comments, corrections

— Andrew Z via email: Interesting read about Space Shuttle software development (aviationweek.com) (PDF: nasa.gov)

Interview -- Laura Forczyk, space careers counselor and author

— Read more about and purchase Rise of the Space Age Millennials

— astralytical.com/rise-of-the-space-age-millennials

— barnesandnoble.com

— amazon.com

— twitter.com/hashtag/SpaceMillennials

— Find out more about Laura

— astralytical.com

— twitter.com/LauraForczyk

— twitter.com/astralytical

— linkedin.com/in/lauraforczyk

This week in SF history

— February 29, 1936, birth of Jack Lousma (wikipedia.org)

— STS-3 landing (youtube.com)

— Next week in 2006: Car crashes apply dV in 300-400 ms. What about five months?

Spaceflight news

— Discovery Program selects four finalists (nasa.gov) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)

— DAVINCI+ (PDF: hou.usra.edu) (wikipedia.org)

— IVO (PDF: hou.usra.edu) (wikipedia.org)

— Trident (PDF: hou.usra.edu) (wikipedia.org) (HT Sam in the chat: forum.nasaspaceflight.com)

— VERITAS (PDF: dlr.de) (wikipedia.org)

— Abstracts for the other proposals (HT sam in the chat: forum.nasaspaceflight.com)

Short & Sweet

— JAXA selects partner for country’s first debris removal project (spacenews.com)

— Spaceway-1 has been safely decommissioned. (spacenews.com)

Questions, comments, corrections

— Ben Hallert on AS-103/Pegasus (twitter.com/chairboy)

— Also, Iranian space suit (twitter.com/fab_hinz) (apnews.com)

— Espen via email: Starship and Starliner presser

— Interesting article we forgot to mention! (forrestheller.com)

— Correct pressure numbers (twitter.com/elonmusk)

— Lovarro quote (twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF)

— Andrew via email: thoughts on Starliner

This week in SF history

— February 19, 1932: birth of Joe Kerwin (wikipedia.org)

— A13 quotes mentioned (hq.nasa.gov)

— Next week in 1936: white hot stick

Spaceflight news

— ASAP report on CST-100 Starliner (arstechnica.com) (blogs.nasa.gov)

— Astra Space emerges from stealth mode (spacenews.com) (arstechnica.com) (astra.com) (bloomberg.com)

Short & Sweet

— SpaceX likely to spinoff Starlink business. (bloomberg.com).

— Cape Canaveral is getting a name change. (spaceflightnow.com)

Interview -- Jason Batt, Editorial and Creative Director, 100 Year Starship

— 100yss.org

— One Sky project (space.com) (nationalgeographic.com)

— Onliest, J Daniel Batt (amazon.com)

This week in SF history

— 16 February 1965, launch of Pegasus 1 (wikipedia.org) (astronautix.com)

— Next week in 1932: Dammit, Jim, I’m a doctor, not a…

Spaceflight news

— Near-miss of IRAS and GGSE-4 (c4isrnet.com) (spacenews.com) (kiro7.com) (space.com)

— Image of post-conjunction trails (twitter.com/juliancd38)

— NASA selects first commercial-destination module for ISS (nasa.gov) (spacenews.com)

Short & Sweet

— Voyager 2 malfunction (voyager.jpl.nasa.gov)

— JWST’s launch date will likely slip again. (arstechnica.com)

— CHEOPS takes big step towards coming online and taking data (sci.esa.int)

Questions, comments, corrections

— From the intro: Hi-Rise returns better imagery of the Schiaparelli crash (uahirise.org)

— Nick via email: skydiving parachutes have risers for reefing

This week in SF history

— February 5, 1947: the birth of Mary Cleave (wikipedia.org) (historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov)

— Next week in 1965: Sitting behind a boilerplate.

Spaceflight news

— Spaceway-1 batteries (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)

Short & Sweet

— Firefly suffers an anomaly on the test stand. (spacenews.com) (space.com)

— Solar Orbiter mission’s launch slips several days (spaceflightnow.com) (twitter.com/torybruno)

— Tethers Unlimited’s Terminator Tape is showing promise. (spacenews.com)

Questions, comments, corrections

— Andrew via email: Phantom Express (spacenews.com)

— Scott Manley covered this as well, with more info on the AR-22, which is actually a refurbished/retooled SSME! (youtube.com)

— Espen via email: second stage might have exploded above the water??? (youtube.com)

This week in SF history

— January 29, 2003: Launch of XSS-10 (space.skyrocket.de)

— Next week in 1947: A woman’s place is preparing meals, cleaning windows and toilets…. on the Shuttle.