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Spaceflight news

— First results from Parker Solar Probe! (nasa.gov) (nature.com)

Short & Sweet

— Running Out of Fingers successfully tests key elements of rocket reuse (techcrunch.com)

— Huntsville gets a new solid rocket motor maker (rocket.com)

Interview

— Kyla Edison

— Geology and Material Science Technician for PISCES Hawaii

— (linkedin.com)

— (pacificspacecenter.com)

— (instagram.com/geolo_geek)

This week in SF history

— December 15, 1984: Launch of Vega 1 (wikipedia.org)

— Balloon aerobot package (nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov)

— Structures and data article (articles.adsabs.harvard.edu)

— Next week in 1973 - What’s the point of a space telescope with a lifetime of less than a week?