This week in SF history— September 27 2003: last flight of Ariane 5 G, launching E-Bird — First A5 flight, 1996, failed spectacularly (youtu.be) (wikipedia.org) (hownot2code.com) — Next week in 1958: Twelve pagesSpaceflight news— NASA planning on placing a cubesat in a Lunar near-rectilinear halo orbit (spacenews.com) (youtube.com) — Meanwhile some Congressfolk are suggesting killing Lunar Gateway altogether (arstechnica.com)Short & Sweet— Updates on Rocket Lab and Blue Origin launch complexes (rocketlabusa.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)— SpaceX is offering a buyout. (space.com)— Japan seeks to double its launch capacity. (rocketrundown.com)Questions, comments, corrections— Off-Nominal DC (aka “inside the beltway”) meetup (events.offnominal.space)