The end of 2018 is proving to be busy: InSight has landed, OSIRIS-REx has rendezvoused with Bennu, SpaceX is breaking records and the CLPS program is here, for what that's worth.

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Links and Show Notes

Watch Mars on National Geographic

The HI-SEAS Mars Habitat Is Turning Into a Moon Simulation - The Atlantic

Crewed flights to ISS resume with Soyuz MS-11 launch - SpaceFlight Insider

NASA Astronaut Nick Hague Gets New Space Assignment After Scary Launch Abort

SpaceX Falcon 9 launches SSO-A multi-sat mission – NASASpaceFlight.com

Singed and sooty, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket still looked brilliant Monday | Ars Technica

NASA Hears MarCO CubeSats Loud and Clear from Mars | NASA

Mars New Home 'a Large Sandbox' | NASA

NASA selects nine companies that will vie to put small landers on the Moon - The Verge

Commercial Lunar Payload Services - CLPS - 80HQTR18R0011R - Federal Business Opportunities: Opportunities

A congressman’s loss clouds the future of two demanding missions to Europa | Ars Technica