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For those who’re searching for a Starliner mission recap, you’ll have to attend just a little longer, as a result of the mission has formally been delayed. At this level, we’re no sooner than Could 17 for the launch. The lengthy delay is to make sure launch supplier United Launch Alliance can roll the rocket again to the Vertical Integration Facility hangar to exchange a valve. (At all times these stinkin’ valves!)
Not fairly a scoop this week, however I did write an unique on a five-month-old startup referred to as Layup Elements, which has closed a $9 million financing spherical led by Founders Fund. The corporate desires to carry automation to composite components manufacturing, in the identical means that Protolabs and Xometry have remodeled CNC machining, for instance.
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As a substitute of recommending one thing to learn this week, I’m going to suggest one thing to observe: this implausible 30-minute video from the good On a regular basis Astronaut. It takes a deep dive into the primary Polaris Daybreak mission and the brand new spacesuits the non-public astronauts might be carrying, designed by SpaceX.
Everyone knows (and love) the Worldwide House Station, however earlier than there was the ISS there was just a little orbiting platform generally known as Skylab. And 50 years in the past, on Could 14, 1973, Skylab lifted off on the final Saturn V rocket.
