Episode 267: DOWNLINK--John Z. Kiss

Spaceflight news— Perseverance launch slips again (spacenews.com) — Centaur has been repaired (twitter.com/thesheetztweetz)Short & Sweet— Rocket Lab suffers second-stage failure and loss of vehicle. (arstechnica.com) (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/RocketLab)— ULA receives its first BE-4. (spacenews.com)— First indigenous-owned ground station to be built in Australia (satnews.com)Interview: John Z. Kiss, Professor of Biology and Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of North Carolina Greensboro— twitter.com/jzk60— linkedin.com— UNC bio and publication list (biology.uncg.edu)— Read more — Exploratory study ahead of sending Arabidopsis on CLPS (content.sciendo.com) — Feature article on Dr. Kiss’ work (researchmagazine.uncg.edu) — TedX talk “Someday We Will Live on Mars) (youtu.be) — Seedling Growth-2 (youtube.com) — Seedling Growth-3 (nasa.gov)This week in SF history— 7 July 1998: first orbital launch from a sub (en.wikipedia.org) — Based on R-29RM (en.wikipedia.org)— Next week in 1975: How long does it take an astronaut to flip a patch upside-down? 7.5 hours.