Episode 269: DOWNLINK--Kathryn Crowe

Spaceflight news— Dream Chaser trunk, Shooting Star, finds its own life (americaspace.com) (sncorp.com) (space.com)Short & Sweet— Hayabusa2 now has a sample return date! (spaceflightnow.com)— Florida’s Mk 2 Starship is being scrapped. (teslarati.com)— Crew Dragon planned to return in early August. (spacenews.com)Questions, comments, corrections— From the intro: the closest images ever taken to the Sun (americaspace.com)Interview-- Kathryn Crowe, NASA Human Landing System Deputy Lead for Integrated Performance— twitter.com/kat_cr— Linkedin.com— Artemis (nasa.gov)— Contractors on HLS (twitter.com/dynetics) (twitter.com/spacex) (twitter.com/blueorigin)This week in SF history— 23 July 1999: Launch of STS-93 (waynehale.wordpress.com) (astronautix.com) (spacefacts.de) (nasaspaceflight.com) (nasa.gov)— Next week in 1980: “get to work” on Soyuz