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Headlines

• Off-Nominal Events: Meetup in DC—Sunday, October 20th!
• NASA Commits to Long-term Artemis Missions with Orion Production | NASA
• Senate appropriators advance bill funding NASA despite uncertainties about Artemis costs - SpaceNews.com
• NASA to develop mission to search for near-Earth asteroids - SpaceNews.com
• Elon Musk on Twitter: “Three Raptors on a Starship”
• Elon Musk on Twitter: “Adding the rear moving fins to Starship Mk1 in Boca Chica, Texas”
• BocaChicaGal photos
• LauncherOne: Shaping Up and Shipping Out | Virgin Orbit
• Soyuz ferries three crew members to space station – Spaceflight Now
• Fresh batteries, experiments on the way to the International Space Station – Spaceflight Now
• Two more satellites launched into China’s Beidou navigation fleet – Spaceflight Now
• Russia launches missile warning satellite – Spaceflight Now
• Keep an eye on upcoming launches with rocketlaunch.live.

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