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Here is a list of news that were published in our Newsletter the week of July 24, 2023:
Human Space Exploration:
- NASA selects companies to advance lunar power and other technologies
- SpaceX Dragon spacecraft had a thruster glitch at the International Space Station in June
- Boeing records more losses from Starliner delays
- NASA and DARPA pick Lockheed Martin and BWXT for DRACO
- Life on ‘Mars:’ Commander of NASA’s 1st yearlong analog comments on 1st month, food and stars
- CAPSTONE working well more than a year after launch
- Government remains crucial for private human spaceflight companies
- 62 years after Grissom’s Mercury flight, Artemis II recovery training commences
- NASA moving into next phase of exploration architecture review
Space Science
- A comet shaped like the Millenium Falcon
- Olympus could have been a giant volcanic island in an ancient Martian ocean
- Scientists may have just cracked the sun’s greatest mystery
- Saturn may have ‘failed’ as a gas giant
- A strong far side CME just hit Solar Orbiter
- ‘Man in the Moon’ older than scientists thought
- James Webb Space Telescope spies water near center of planet-forming disk in cosmic 1st
- Engineers design a robot that can stick to, crawl along, and sail around rubble pile asteroids
- After bopping an asteroid 3 years ago, NASA will finally see the results
- GPS satellites may be able to detect earthquakes before they happen
- China grants access to its space station for space science projects
- Utah is right place to land the Bennu asteroid sample, NASA OSIRIS-REx leaders say
Other News
- Varda waiting on FAA license to return space manufacturing capsule
- Final orbit-raising maneuver of Chandrayaan-3 completed
- House defeats bill over concerns about FCC space safety and debris authority
- UFO whistleblower tells Congress the U.S. government is hiding evidence of ‘non-human intelligence’
- Pair of Chinese launches put flat-panel satellite, new spy sats in orbit
- Argentina signs Artemis Accords
- A nearly 20-year ban on human spaceflight regulations is set to expire
- Northrop Grumman takes $36 million charge on NASA Gateway module
- Maxar to begin production of new small satellite bus
- China’s main rocket engine for crewed lunar missions completes new trial
- Amazon is spending $120 million on a building for its internet satellites
- NASA offers details on commercial space capabilities agreements
Major Space Related Activities for the Week
- U.S. Senate and House appropriators have much ahead of them this week in efforts to reach an agreement on a budget for the 2024 fiscal year that begins October 1. As this week concludes, the House begins a six-week recess and the Senate a five-week recess.
- The House Oversight and Accountability Committee is hosting a hearing on Wednesday on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, previously identified as UFOs, regarding “Implications for National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency.”
- On Tuesday, NASA will host news briefings on the planned launch of the Crew-7 mission to the International Space Station, which includes a total of four astronauts and cosmonauts, one each from NASA as well as the European, Japanese and Russia space agencies.The pre-launch NASA news briefings begin at 12:30 p.m. EDT and are to be aired on NASA-TV and streamed via www.nasa.gov/nasalive. The launch is planned for August 15. NASA’s Science Mission Directorate will host a virtual town hall on Thursday at 1 p.m. via Webex and YouTube.