Episode 248: Four Discoverers

Spaceflight news— Discovery Program selects four finalists (nasa.gov) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)— DAVINCI+ (PDF: hou.usra.edu) (wikipedia.org)— IVO (PDF: hou.usra.edu) (wikipedia.org)— Trident (PDF: hou.usra.edu) (wikipedia.org) (HT Sam in the chat: forum.nasaspaceflight.com)— VERITAS (PDF: dlr.de) (wikipedia.org)— Abstracts for the other proposals (HT sam in the chat: forum.nasaspaceflight.com)Short & Sweet— JAXA selects partner for country’s first debris removal project (spacenews.com)— Spaceway-1 has been safely decommissioned. (spacenews.com)Questions, comments, corrections— Ben Hallert on AS-103/Pegasus (twitter.com/chairboy) — Also, Iranian space suit (twitter.com/fab_hinz) (apnews.com)— Espen via email: Starship and Starliner presser — Interesting article we forgot to mention! (forrestheller.com) — Correct pressure numbers (twitter.com/elonmusk) — Lovarro quote (twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF)— Andrew via email: thoughts on StarlinerThis week in SF history— February 19, 1932: birth of Joe Kerwin (wikipedia.org) — A13 quotes mentioned (hq.nasa.gov)— Next week in 1936: white hot stick