The Orbital Mechanics Podcast

Spaceflight news— Loverro quit! (spacenews.com) (spaceflightnow.com) (arstechnica.com) (washingtonpost.com)— Crew Dragon launch prep (HT Andrew Z: nasaspaceflight.com) (planetary.org) (americaspace.com) — Commercial crew is an amazing deal. (planetary.org) — NASA & SpaceX: Journey to the Future to air May 25 at 9 p.m. PT/ET on Science and at 10 p.m. PT/ET May 26 on Discovery (deadline.com)Short & Sweet— WFIRST renamed after pioneering astronomer, Nancy Grace Roman (spacenews.com)— Skyrora completes first full static firing in the UK in half a century (skyrora.com)— Northrop Grumman gets a Space Force contract (spacenews.com)— Relativity hires SpaceX executive to lead launch vehicle production (spacenews.com)Questions, comments, corrections— Ben Hallert on Artemis orbit limitations (twitter.com/chairboy) — Also quoted in an article on the cult of Elon Musk (theatlantic.com)This week in SF history— 1971 May 30: launch of Mariner 9 (sci-hub.tw) (en.wikipedia.org) (space.skyrocket.de)— Next week