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Here is a list of news that were published in our Newsletter the week of May 23-27:
Human Space Exploration:
- ESA does not anticipate Russian withdrawal from ISS
- NASA achieves major milestone in its quest to land Artemis III astronauts on the Moon
- NASA’s verdict on Starliner: “A great vehicle for crew transportation”
- Boeing’s Starliner OFT-2 mission ends successfully
- Starliner spacecraft cleared for undocking and re-entry
- NASA shows off early plans to send astronauts to Mars for 30 days
- NASA plans to make Starliner crew assignments this summer
- Teams in New Mexico gear up for Wednesday landing of Boeing Starliner capsule (photos)
- Biden vows to expand space cooperation with South Korea, Japan
- NASA plans early June rollout of SLS for next countdown test
- Starliner launches to remain on Atlas 5
- Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is open for astronauts at Space Station for 1st time
Space Science
- Researchers made ultracold quantum bubbles on the Space Station
- The building blocks for supermassive black holes are found in dwarf galaxies
- Humans could become a truly interplanetary species within 200 years, physicists claim
- Update on the potential May 31st tau Herculid meteor storm
- Famous ‘alien’ Wow! signal may have come from distant, sunlike star
- New photo reveals a NASA spacecraft cloaked in Martian dust
- Ice at the Moon’s poles might have come from ancient volcanoes
- The NASA-funded launch of CAPSTONE, a tiny cubesat for the Moon, delayed to June 6
- Launch of NASA’s Psyche asteroid mission delayed to late September
- Planets form differently around binary stars and so might life
- Could people breathe the air on Mars?
- A meteor shower outburst from a shattered comet may spawn new tau Herculids display on May 30
- There’s a mystery in our universe’s expansion rate and the Hubble Space Telescope is on the case
Other News
- BlackSky, Maxar, Planet win 10-year NRO contracts for satellite imagery
- Supply chain challenges also present opportunities for the space industry
- Industry looks to decentralized approaches to space sustainability
- Lawsuit challenges FAA license for spaceport near Cumberland Island National Seashore
- Quad nations unveil satellite-based maritime monitoring initiative
- NASA is building a mission that will refuel and repair satellites in orbit
- China launches three LEO communication satellites ahead of launch surge
- Industry pushes for NASA reauthorization
Major Space Related Activities for the Week
- Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) Starliner capsule is planned for a return to Earth on Wednesday, weather permitting.