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Welcome to the 620th Carnival of Space! The Carnival is a community of space science and astronomy writers and bloggers, who submit their best work each week for your benefit. We have a fantastic roundup today, so now, on to this week’s worth of stories!

NextBigFuture:

• Elon Musk will present on the Starship in late July after the Hopper starts hovering.
• NASA current plans to return astronauts to the moon by 2024 and to create a lunar gateway (a mini-ISS space station) in lunar orbit would be a disappointment.

USRA Houston Repository:

• Slide set: The Apollo landing sites compiled by James R. Zimbelman

Universe Today:

• The Planet-Hunting TESS Discovers Its Smallest Exoplanet to Date
• NASA’s Still Trying to Get InSight’s Mole Working Again. Progress is Slow.
• NASA Telescopes Reveal the Atmosphere of A Strange Hybrid Exoplanet

Thank you for all of your stories – we’ll see you next week!

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