This week, off world: ESA's BepiColombo mission zooms past Mercury, a 1 meter asteroid goes boom on camera and loads more...

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Fundraiser by Kurt Mager : Saving me from homelessness. (gofundme.com)

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...and here is (one) place you can donate to help children in Afghanistan, caught under the Taliban.

    

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BepiColombo’s fourth flyby of Mercury

SpaceX Starlink 189 launch and Falcon 9 first stage landing, 31 August 2024

Blastoffs! SpaceX launches two Falcon 9 rockets in 65 minutes, nails landings

Cluster reentry explained: World's first targeted reentry

Chinese astronauts study ancient microbes aboard Tiangong space station (video) | Space

Mars' escaping water mystery 'unlocked' by Hubble and MAVEN

Tianwen-3 will return samples from Mars

Strange noise on Boeing Starliner spacecraft was just speaker feedback - Hear it here!

Meteor burns up over Earth in amazing footage from space station

Last flight of the Vega rocket:

Watch the moment an asteroid hits Earth

CFT Starliner returns to Earth uncrewed

Reading material:

'There was some tension in the room', NASA says of decision to bring Boeing's Starliner spacecraft home without astronauts (msn.com)

A Review of Humanity's Planned Expansion Between the Earth and the Moon - Universe Today

Musk the space pirate? Elon Musk defies X ban in Brazil by beaming app from space (msn.com)

NASA's solar sail successfully spreads its wings in space (msn.com)

Evolution Space tests rocket on Spaceport Company sea-based platform - SpaceNews

The reusable 'spaceplane' that could replace rockets and fly humans to space and back (msn.com)

China's mysterious space plane returns to Earth after 268 days in orbit (msn.com)