back to article Slip-sliding to May: Another Dragon delay and JAXA makes a bigger splash

SpaceX's next ISS-bound launch was delayed, a new asteroid crater was made and some stamps for Apollo nostalgia fiends landed. El Reg has collated the past week's event in space for your delectation. SpaceX slippages While the famously taciturn company continued to pick up the pieces left over from the 'anomaly' that resulted …

  1. bazza Silver badge
    Pint

    Hayabusa

    They're doing very well with this, need <icon>

  2. Anonymous Custard Silver badge
    Alien

    A kaboom with a view

    So the testing of the Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator worked.

    But does the Hayabusa2 now have an unobstructed view of Venus one wonders?

    1. ecofeco Silver badge

      Re: A kaboom with a view

      Marvin is that you?

  3. SVV

    Isle of Man moon mission stamps

    For a place whose most famous technological achievement is a water wheel, that is some serious chutzpah.

    1. MyffyW Silver badge

      Re: Isle of Man moon mission stamps

      serious chutzpah? - Well the Apollo 11 lunar plaque did say they came for all Mankind.

    2. defiler

      Re: Isle of Man moon mission stamps

      Yet at the same time, I understand that they're the 5th-biggest advanced aerospace manufacturing region in the world.

      You've got guys (and ladies, of course) with incredibly well-equipped sheds who spend a dozen weeks of the year making two- and three-wheeled things go incredibly quickly, and the rest of the time doing high-tech stuff to pay for it all.

      1. John Jennings
        Pint

        Re: Isle of Man moon mission stamps

        Was advanced for a while - I think some of the main palyers went under in 2015/16.

        Now, they still do fast, Darwinian bike races, which are a great watch

        1. defiler

          Re: Isle of Man moon mission stamps

          Practice week starts on the 25th - don't forget!

  4. Beachrider

    Don't forget Orbital...

    Northrup-Grumman's launch of the 10th Cygnus (on Antares, from coastal Virginia) happened on April 17, too. The "Roger Chaffee" capsule was emptied out and disposed already.

    1. ecofeco Silver badge

      Re: Don't forget Orbital...

      More info please!

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