Spaceflight news

— NASA selects companies to develop Human Landing System (HLS) for Artemis (nasaspaceflight.com) (twitter.com/SciGuySpace)

— Source Selection Statement (PDF: beta.sam.gov)

— Scott Manley’s summary (youtube.com)

— Excellent scaled image of all HLS’s, and Apollo’s LEM (reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge)

— Prepping for Crew Dragon (spacenews.com)

— Flag to be captured: (reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge)

Short & Sweet

— UAE Mars mission arrives at launch site (nasaspaceflight.com)

— Starlink sun visor testing to begin. (spacenews.com)

— OmegA is ready to go into production. (spacenews.com)

— Rocket Lab tests at Wallops (spacenews.com)

This week in SF history

— May 8 1962: The First launch of Atlas-Centaur ends in an explosion (twitter.com/RocketRundown) (youtube.com) (wikipedia.org)

— Next week in 1987: Pew-pew boom

Episode 259: Human Moon Landers

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast