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Artemis 3 Crew Reveal, 390 Gravitational Waves & Double Launch Day | May 29
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NASA confirms the Artemis 3 crew reveal on June 9 as the mission is restructured away from a lunar landing, while LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA drops a landmark gravitational wave catalog with 390 confirmed events. Plus a rare double-header launch day at Cape Canaveral and Blue Origin's New Glenn cleared for June 4.
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Four days from now, NASA will put names to faces for the Artemis 3 mission. The agency has confirmed a live press conference on June 9th, where it'll announce the four astronauts selected to fly what is now a fundamentally different mission than the one originally planned.
Shift to astrophysics, where a major new catalog just dropped. The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration has released GWTC-5.0, adding one hundred sixty-one new gravitational wave detections from the fourth observing run, which ran from April twenty twenty-four through January twenty twenty-five.
Down at Cape Canaveral, Thursday May twenty-ninth is shaping up as a rare double-header launch day. SpaceX has a Falcon 9 carrying Starlink satellites scheduled for seven fifty-two in the morning, with a four-hour window available.
One more launch to flag. Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket has been cleared for a June fourth flight after the FAA wrapped its investigation into an engine anomaly from April that resulted in a payload loss.
Three things worth tracking from here. The June 9th Artemis 3 crew announcement will tell us something about NASA's intent and public messaging around the restructured mission.
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