Spaceflight news

— Landing Super Heavy (twitter.com/elonmusk) (reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge)

— Scott Manley covered this technique (youtube.com)

— Possible claw-on-cables steadying mechanism (youtube.com)

— Small SN9 update (nasaspaceflight.com)

Short & Sweet

— Long March 8 successfully debuts (spaceflightnow.com)

— Protection of lunar heritage sites signed into law. (spacepolicyonline.com)

This week in SF history

— 7 Jan, 1985: launch of Sakigake (isas.jaxa.jp) (solarsystem.nasa.gov)

— Next week (1/12 through 1/18) in 1997, Rip, or R.I.P.