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This week in SF history 28 February 1990: STS-36 flies to 62 degree orbit, the highest inclination ever flown by a shuttle, to deploy what is believed to be a Hubble-sized spy sat

Spaceflight news A new SpaceShipTwo, Unity (spacenews.com) Boeing conducts splashdown test on Starliner. (spacenews.com) (youtube) Video of Orion’s splash test (youtube) Rocketlab has a contract to launch Spire sats. (spacenews.com) Record breaking 18,300 applicants to astronaut class of 2017 (nasa.gov)

Questions, comments, corrections Bart willems via email. Kwangmyongsong-4 did a dog-leg maneuver, not a plane-change maneuver. (zarya.info)

