The Orbital Mechanics Podcast

Spaceflight news— Demo-2 mission: Endeavor docks with ISS (spacenews)(twitter.com/lorengrush) — A bell in Unity is rung twice to announce the arrival and departure of vehicles (twitter.com/planet4589) — A fantastic CollectSpace thread with lots of suit zipper images (collectspace.com) — Note that the A7L Apollo suit had the pressure zipper on the outside. The inside zipper was just to close the garment — Crew Dragon/Falcon 9 believed to have lower risk factor than Shuttle (spacenews.com) — Mark 3 parachutes (spacenews.com)Short & Sweet— Virgin Orbit’s first launch attempt fails. (spacenews.com)— Launch vehicle for China’s Mars mission arrives at space center. (spacenews.com)This week in SF history— 8 June, 1966: Saturn 500F moved from the pad to the VAB as Hurricane Alma approached (drewexmachina.com) (wikipedia.org) — The famous tennis shoe test (youtube.com)— Next week in 1977: Bombs away!