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(Halloween) The Sun is a Mass of Incandescent Gas Edition
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--UPDATES--
>ESA requesting €230 million more for Ariane 6 ($268 million USD)
>Pentagon creates new “Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense” for space policy
>OSIRIS-REx fasttracks sample stowage after they realized they had a gay design that couldn’t close (this is a New Frontiers program along with Juno and New Horizons, costing billions of dollars lmao)
>SpaceX recently reached 100 successful missions
>FCC approves OneWeb sale as Starlink also begins public beta
>SLS is gay
>Starship coming along nicely; all road closures cancelled unfortunately (Oct 30 – Nov 4)
--THIS DAY IN SPACEFLIGHT (October 31st)--
>Birth of Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins (1930)
>An F4U Corsair completes the first successful radar-guided interception (1943)
>Soyuz TM-31 launches, bringing the first resident crew to the ISS (2000)
>Virgin Galactic’s VSS Enterprise fucking explodes (2014)