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• Indian GSLV upper stage (Russian-derived) fails
•Northrop Grumman didn't hear no bell; might try to enter the launch market again even after OmegA's journey to the shadow realm || https://spacenews.com/northrop-grumman-has-not-ruled-out-another-try-at-national-security-space-launch/
• Starliner faces month long delay, possibility of 2022 slip
• Artemis suits are a meme
• Long March 7 arrives for late September; second space station cargo resupply launch ahead of upcoming Shenzhou-12 crew transfer

THIS DAY IN SPACE FLIGHT (18th August)
• 1590 - John White returns to govern the Roanoke Colony after a supply trip to England to find it deserted (colonies are hard) (431 years ago)
•1783 - a huge meteor is seen racing across the skies of Great Britain (238 years ago)
• 1903 - German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his motored gliding airplane, four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers (118 years ago)
• 1954 - birth of Italian astronaut Umberto Guidoni (66 years old)
(sorry not a lot of actual space stuff today. Helium was discovered 153 years ago today though!)