Episode 487: What's that smell?

Spaceflight News

— Global grasshoppers

— Russia’s hopper (arstechnica.com)

— EU’s hopper (europeanspaceflight.com)

Short & Sweet

— Omani spaceport looks to launch next month (www.thenationalnews.com)

— China tests inflatable spacecraft on orbit (news.cgtn.com) (space.com) (spacenews.com)

— Starship Test Flight Six (nasaspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com) 

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: Progress contamination (russianspaceweb.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— November 28, 1983: Launch of STS-9, Columbia (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: nasa.gov) (nasa.gov)  (americaspace.com)

— Next week (12/3 - 12/9) in 2003: You’ve heard of the space banana, but what about the Banana River dunk?