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Weekly Links
Down to Earth
After much delay over the last year, the US Senate has finally confirmed former Congressman Jim Bridenstine as the new NASA administrator.
Orbital ATK is designing a new rocket for the Air Force, to be named OmegA.
A new Netflix film, Mercury 13, covers the participation (or lack thereof) of women pilots in America’s early space program.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) received over 4,000 applicants to be astronauts in their budding space program.
Former cosmonaut Vladimir Lykakhov, who spent 333 days in space, has died.
Scott Altman and Thomas Jones have been inducted into the US Astronaut Hall of Fame.
In Orbit
Two orbital rocket launches since my last post:
- April 18 – A Russian Proton rocket launched carrying a military communications satellite.
- April 18 – A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched carrying NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).