This week, off world: Making lunar soil more fertile with bacteria, NASA's Lucy mission finds an asteroid with a weird binary moon, and loads more

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SpaceX CRS-29 launch and Falcon 9 first stage landing 

3 Medical Breakthroughs from the International Space Station 

SpaceX launches Starlink batch on booster's record-breaking 18th flight, nails landing 

SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites and nails landing on 80th orbital mission of 2023 

Neutron | Stage 2 Cryogenic Test 

Jupiter through 7in mak-cass telescope 

Reading material:

Nasa gets ‘puzzling’ data back from Lucy spacecraft exploring distant object (msn.com)

International Space Station dodges orbital debris hours before SpaceX cargo arrival: report | Space

'Lunar swirls' have confused scientists for years. New NASA moon data might clear things up | Space

 

A satellite's very tiny camera took a very blurry picture of Earth — and it's perfect | Space

US military gives Lockheed Martin $33.7 million to develop nuclear spacecraft | Space

Watch NASA build its VIPER moon rover with these free online watch parties | Space

Some of the Moon's Craters are From Interstellar Impacts. Can We Tell Which? - Universe Today

ESA Plans to Eliminate New Space Debris by 2030 - Universe Today

Transportation Department official suggests industry help pay for FAA commercial space office - SpaceNews

Bulgaria signs Artemis Accords - SpaceNews

What exposure to radiation does to glass on the moon over billions of years (phys.org)

Using bacteria to make lunar soil more fertile (phys.org)

NASA's Mars fleet will still conduct science while lying low (phys.org)