Episode 364: Tissue Paper Pineapple

Spaceflight News— Lucy in the news with updates (space.com) (spaceflightnow.com) (blogs.nasa.gov) (youtube.com)Short & Sweet— Starliner gets its first crew (spacenews.com)— ISS performs debris avoidance maneuver (nasa.gov)— Markusic steps down as CEO of Firefly (spacenews.com)Questions, Comments, Corrections— From the intro: Perseverance sees something shiny (planetary.org)This Week in Spaceflight History— June 27, 1982: Launch of Columbia, STS-4 (en.wikipedia.org) (spacefacts.de)  — This was one of the Scotchguard flights (PDF: ntrs.nasa.gov) (twitter.com/DrPhiltill) — Ejection seats were installed (and enabled) for only a handful of early Shuttle flights (PDF: nasa.gov) — Neither SRB was recovered (core.ac.uk) (aero-news.net) — Science payload included MLR (ntrs.nasa.gov)— Next week (6/28 - 7/4) in 1979: Really big eye-in-the-sky.