Spaceflight News

— Astra Layoffs (spacenews.com) (cnbc.com)

Short & Sweet

— Starship Activities (nasaspaceflight.com) (twitter.com/elonmusk)

— Cygnus gets an upgrade (spacenews.com)

— Airbus and Voyager announce commercial space station plans (spacenews.com) (europeanspaceflight.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 11 and 12 Aug, 1962: The launches of Vostok 3 and 4 (russianspaceweb.com) (russianspaceweb.com) (russianspaceweb.com)

— Next week (8/15 - 8/21) in 1960: That last step is a doozy