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Starship is successful on its fourth flight, Starliner reaches the station, carrying people, Hubble is only using one gyro, and Chang’e-6 scoops samples from the Moon and heads for home.

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• 00:00 Intro

• 00:14 Starship IFT-4
  
  

  • https://www.universetoday.com/167296/success-starship-makes-a-splash-in-fourth-flight-test/

• 07:10 Starliner First Crewed Launch
  
  

  • https://www.universetoday.com/167277/starliner-finally-launches-carrying-two-astronauts-into-orbit/

• 09:28 Chang'e-6 Lands, Scoops, Launches back
  
  

  • https://www.universetoday.com/167243/chinese-probe-collects-moon-samples-and-heads-for-earth/

• 10:53 dearMoon gets cancelled
  
  

  • https://www.universetoday.com/167211/japanese-billionaire-calls-off-his-starship-trip-around-the-moon/

• 12:19 SLIM is dead
  
  

  • https://www.universetoday.com/167242/japans-lunar-lander-fails-to-check-in/

• 13:03 Vote results

• 13:34 Hubble goes into single gyro mode
  
  

  • https://www.universetoday.com/167294/its-time-for-hardworking-hubble-to-slow-down-a-little/

• 16:09 Moon spacesuits integrated test
  
  

  • https://www.universetoday.com/167278/astronauts-are-practicing-lunar-operations-in-new-space-suits/

• 17:11 Support our work

• 18:27 Habitable worlds observatory
  
  

  • https://www.universetoday.com/167280/research-work-begins-on-the-habitable-worlds-observatory/

• 20:20 Dark matter updates
  
  

  • https://www.universetoday.com/167236/evidence-of-dark-matter-interacting-with-itself-in-el-gordo-merger/

• 24:24 More space news

• 25:06 What Starship success means

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