Episode 485: Shuttle Sandwich

Spaceflight News

— CRS-2 extended (spacenews.com) (sam.gov)

Short & Sweet

— Gilmour ups and Bowen downs (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)

— LignoSat to be deployed from ISS (popsci.com) (nanosats.eu)

— Long March 9: Starship (arstechnica)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: LEO safety study (PDF: ntrs.nasa.gov)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 12 Nov, 1981: The launch of STS-2 (en.wikipedia.org) (nasa.gov) (historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov)

— Next week (11/19 - 11/25) in 1970: LELO: Low-Earth “Lunar” Orbit