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Here is a list of news that were published in our Newsletter the week of May 27 – July 1:
Human Space Exploration:
- Six months in space leads to a decade’s worth of long-term bone loss
- FY2023 funding for NASA takes another step forward, NEO Surveyor gets a boost
- 205 applicants pass preliminary tests in JAXA astronaut recruitment
- House appropriators partially restore funding for planetary defense mission
- Rocket Lab & NASA launch CAPSTONE to the Moon
- UPDATE: NASA postpones moving Artemis I rocket back to VAB
- Axiom and Collins only bidders for NASA spacesuit contracts
Space Science
- Venus orbiter, lunar constellation and exoplanets telescopes among candidates as China selects new space science missions
- Swarms of tiny robots may one day explore oceans on other worlds
- NASA’s Europa Clipper may crash into Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system, at mission’s end
- NASA’s DART asteroid mission might completely deform small moonlet
- NASA scientists say images from the Webb telescope nearly brought them to tears
- Comet K2 enters the inner solar system
- Rock samples from NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover contain key ingredient of life
- InSight teams push for more science in lander’s final months, Curiosity continues trek around Gale crater
- Controversy grows over whether Mars samples endanger Earth
- NASA’s Psyche mission to an unexplored metal world comes to a halt
- Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus supply ship departs Space Station
- James Webb Space Telescope team clears 1st instrument for science observations
Other News
- China looks to launch liquid propellant rockets from the seas
- U.S. Space Force establishes new unit to track ‘threats in orbit’
- Jacobs wins $3.9B NASA contract recompete for Johnson Space Center support
- Virgin Orbit delays launch of seven satellites for U.S. Space Force and NASA
- Sierra Space signs agreement with Turkish Space Agency
- House appropriators hold back on increase for FAA space office, endorse NTSB role in safety oversight
- Why it’ll take NASA’s tiny CAPSTONE probe so long to reach the Moon
- U.S. military’s mysterious X-37B space plane zooms toward orbital record
- ULA ready to roll Atlas 5 rocket to launch pad today
- Space Force acquisition chief to meet with ULA and Blue Origin, expects Vulcan to launch in December
- China launches new satellite for Earth observation
- New double crater seen on the Moon after mystery rocket impact
- How this Amazon cloud device made it to the International Space Station, and what it did in orbit
- NASA halts sale, wants back Apollo 11 Moon dust fed to cockroaches
- NASA successfully launches its first rocket from newly created Arnhem Space Centre
Major Space Related Activities for the Week
- )The Commerce-Justice-Science (CJS) subcommittee that funds NASA approved its spending bill last week.