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#SpaceInAMinute : 2-8 Jun 2024 IN REMEMBRANCE 🙏🏾 • NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration astronaut William (Bill) Anders died in an aircraft accident. He was an Apollo 8 crew member that orbited #Luna on 24 Dec 1968. LAUNCHES 🚀 • Rocket Lab plans milestone 50th Electron mission for Kinéis on 19 Jun 2024. • ARIANESPACE’s Ariane 6 planning for 9 Jul 2024 launch date from #GuianaSpaceCentre in Kourou, French Guiana. • Polaris program planning for 12 Jul 2024 launch date for #PolarisDawn. • SpaceX #Starship #IFT5 attempt possibly in late Jul or Aug 2024. • Sierra Space / United Launch Alliance (ULA) - Awaiting a launch date for #DreamChaser. SPACE DESTINATIONS 🪐 • China landed Chang'e 6 on the far side of #Luna and re-docked for the lunar sample return mission. • #NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are planned to undock from the #ISS on 18 Jun 2024. • #ESA and #NASA completed ergonomics and habitability tests of the Lunar I-Hab module for #LunarGateway at Thales Alenia Space. • VAST and #ESA signed a Memorandum of Understanding for future space stations. • Starlab astronaut crews will be trained by Airbus Defence and Space and Lufthansa. SPACEPORTS 📡 • Rocket Lab completed PREFIRE and Ice #NASA mission on 5 Jun 2024 from Mahia, New Zealand. • #NASA, Boeing and United Launch Alliance (ULA) completed #Starliner Crew Flight Test (#CFT) launch to #ISS on 5 Jun 2024. • SpaceX completed #Starship #IFT4 launch from #Starbase in Boca Chica, TX on 6 Jun 2024. • Virgin Galactic completed #Galactic07 suborbital mission from Spaceport America on 8 Jun 2024. COMMERCIAL SPACE 🛰️ • Firefly Aerospace will partner with Lockheed Martin to launch 25 missions with the #Alpha rocket through 2029. • Redwire Space broke ground on a new microgravity payload development facility in Indiana. • Planet’s first hyperspectral satellite, Tanager-1, is at Vandenberg Spaceport in preparation for a 2024 summer launch. CIVIL SPACE 📝 • The first metal #3Dprinting aboard #ISS used an #ESA printer. • Federal Aviation Administration can now track Sierra Space, SpaceX & Virgin Galactic vehicles in near-real time during launch and reentry using the Space Data Integrator. • JAXA: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Extraterrestrial Sample Curation Center is ready to receive asteroid Bennu samples collected by #OSIRISREx. • South Korea launched the Korea AeroSpace Administration (#KASA). Aim to land on #Luna by 2032 and Mars by 2045. • #NASA astronaut Doug Wheelock and Axiom Space’s Peggy Whitson conducted full-scale mockups tests of #AxEMU spacesuits and the #SpaceX #StarshipHLS in preparation for #Artemis 3 mission. CONFERENCES 📅 • JAXA: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Space Exploration Symposium 2024 : 12 Jun 2024 • ASCEND in Las Vegas, NV : 30 Jul - 1 Aug 2024 • IAC2024 in Milan, Italy : 14-18 Oct 2024 • The Mars Society Convention in Seattle, WA : 8-11 Aug 2024