Spaceflight news

— Discovery 15 and 16 selected - we’re heading for Venus! (space.com) (spacenews.com)

— NASA Presidential Budget Request (planetary.org)

— House bill wants to designate space as critical infrastructure (spacenews.com)

Short & Sweet

— South Korean rocket prepares for October test (theregister.com)

— Axiom, SpaceX reach agreement to send three more private crews to ISS (cnet.com) (spacenews.com)

— JWST launch update (spacenews.com)

Interview -- Dr. Alessandro Patruno, Quaternion Books

— Support this work by buying a copy of The Human Computer: Katherine Johnson’s Story (kickstarter.com)

— More info about the book is on the publisher’s website (quaternionbooks.com)

— facebook.com/quaternionbooks

This week in SF history

— 10 June, 1969. Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) program cancelled (PDF: nro.gov) (PDF: nro.gov) (en.wikipedia.org)

— Next week (6/15 - 6/21) in 1993: It was the longest day. Ten minutes later, it was the shortest.

Thanks to Colin-in-the-chat for naming this week’s episode!

Episode 312: Hot Take on Venus

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast