Spaceflight news

— Firefly signs Launch Services Agreement with Spaceflight, Inc. (spacenews.com) (spaceflight.com)

— Originally autogenously pressurized tanks (space.stackexchange.com)

— Fire in Jan due to misconfigured software (youtube.com/watch)

— Spaceflight Industries In process of being bought by Mitsui and Yamasa (techcrunch.com)

Short & Sweet

— Starliner requires more than a reflight to be fit for crew (HT Sam in the chat twitter.com/thesheetztweetz)

— Dream Chaser gets its wings. (nasaspaceflight.com)

— Design narrowed for future Mars Ascent Vehicle. (spaceflightnow.com)

Questions, comments, corrections

This week in SF history

— 1954 April 29: Launch of Nike Nike Deacon (space.skyrocket.de) (astronautix.com)

— More info on Deacon (astronautix.com)

— Next week in 1962: Don’t take your jacket off too early!

Episode 258: Firefly Payday

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast