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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.