Episode 250: This Is Not the Plan

Spaceflight news— SpaceX plans a mobile service tower (twitter.com/Falcon9Block5) (space.com) — Starship SN-1 suffered pressure failure (twitter.com/JohnRand0061) (youtube.com)— Artemis changes? (arstechnica.com) — “This is not the plan.” says Bridenstine re Moon 2024 Mission Manifest (twitter.com/JimBridenstine)Short & Sweet— NASA's safety advisory panel finds Boeing didn't perform end-to-end software check prior to Starliner demo mission. (orlandosentinel.com) (twitter.com/ChabeliH) (twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF)— OmegA’s second stage has been test fired. (spacenews.com)— MEV-1 performs first ever docking between commercial spacecraft. (c4isrnet.com) (twitter.com/northropgrumman)Questions, comments, corrections— Paul via email: Lousma pronounced like “lousy.”— Jason Friesen via email: Skylab rescue was a totally different mission from Skylab-4! (en.wikipedia.org)This week in SF history— March 10, 2006: MRO enters Mars orbit (wikipedia.org)— Next week in 1934: Puppetteer