This week, off world: The first ever sci-fi, never-seen-before crystals from a meteorite, NASA's Capstone mission loses and regains communications, and loads more....

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 Pick o' the podcasts:

From the video store:

30 ultracool dwarfs discovered:

SpaceX opens busy second half of 2022 with Starlink launch - NASASpaceFlight.com

A  ULA Space Force launch:

The first ever sci-fi?

...and science pays homage to modern sci-fi:

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Earth from Space - Fuerteventura and Lanzarote, Canary Islands - SpaceRef

Reading material:

Never-before-seen crystals found in perfectly preserved meteorite dust | Space

Bacteria for blastoff: Using microbes to make supercharged new rocket fuel (ScienceDaily)

Gemini North spies ultra-faint fossil galaxy discovered on outskirts of Andromeda -- ScienceDaily

Capturing the onset of galaxy rotation in the early universe -- ScienceDaily

Nasa restablished contact with its Capstone lunar spacecraft Wednesday | The Independent

New launch vehicles set for test flights from China’s Jiuquan spaceport - SpaceNews

Stellar Ventures unveils $23 million early-stage fund - SpaceNews

Communications established with payload on stabilized PSLV upper stage - SpaceNews

Virgin Galactic selects Aurora Flight Sciences to build new motherships - SpaceNews