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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:
- Shenzhou-14 taikonauts to conduct 24 medical experiments in space
- NASA audit reveals massive overruns in SLS mobile launch platform
- GM and Lockheed are taking their lunar rover project to the commercial space market
- France signs Artemis Accords on future lunar exploration
Space Science
- China releases most detailed geological map of the Moon to date
- NASA’s latest plan to fix Trojan spacecraft’s unlatched solar array shows signs of promise
- Psyche launch delay forcing revamp of rideshare mission
- NASA is joining the hunt for ‘unidentified aerial phenomena’
- Five planets will line up in the sky in June. Here’s how to see it
- Ingenuity Mars helicopter team aims to keep flying despite dead navigation sensor
- Hubble finds a bunch of galaxies that Webb should check out
- NASA’s new powerful space telescope gets hit by larger than expected micrometeoroid
- NASA releases totally Rad Roman Telescope retro video game
- New trove of data from Europe’s Gaia mission will lead to best Milky Way map ever
- South Korea cancels Apophis probe
- NASA’s DAVINCI mission could start a scientific renaissance on Venus
- Valery Ryumin, cosmonaut who launched to Salyut and Mir, dies at 82
- Russia seeks to hijack German telescope on its X-ray spacecraft
- Perseverance is seeing A LOT of dust devils
- Small NASA lunar probe to hitch ride on commercial Moon mission
Other News
- 2022 John Glenn Public Service Award goes to Bill Nelson
- Northrop Grumman to boost production of solid rocket motors following big contract from ULA
- Airbus sending 3-D printer to Space Station next year to pave way for off-Earth factories
- First NASA space launch from Australia this century to lift off in June
- Raytheon moving corporate headquarters to D.C. area, joining other defense primes
Major Space Related Activities for the Week
- SpaceX’s next cargo launch to Space Station delayed from Friday due to odd propellant reading
- NASA’s Artemis 1 Moon rocket returns to launch pad for crucial tests