This Week in Spaceflight History— 4 June, 2010. First launch of Falcon 9 (youtu.be)(wikipedia.org)Spaceflight news— Ariane 6 update (satelliteobservation.net/)Short & Sweet— NASA wants to buy rides on commercial lunar landers by the end of the year (spacenews.com)— Bangabandhu-1 didn’t count for crew rating (spaceflightnow.com)Interview: Eric Blood— Eric’s profile (linkedin.com)— LDSD overview (youtube.com) — LDSD SFDT-1 debrief presentation (PDF: nasa.gov)— BLDT, a predecessor to LDSD (researchgate.net)— BLDT Test Report for Flight 4 (nasa.gov)— SIAD rocket sled testing: (youtube.com)— Parachute rocket sled testing (youtube.com)— Parachute deployment via trailing ballute (nasa.gov)— Summary of SFDT-1 Test: (nasa.gov)— LDSD Parachute System overview (nasa.gov)— Parachute performance during SFDT-1 (nasa.gov)