Hello, everyone, and welcome back to This Week in Space. We’ve got the best of this week’s space news, as usual. But first, we’d like to start with a note in celebration of Veterans’ Day.

It takes great courage to put yourself on the line for your country and your fellow citizens. It also takes great courage to put an end to the fighting. This holiday has its roots in another holiday, Armistice Day, which commemorates the end of the first World War. We might have kept calling it Armistice Day, but war broke out again, just 20 years after the end of the Great War. After World War II, a veteran named Raymond Brooks organized a National Veterans Day gathering on Nov. 11 to honor all veterans, and the name Veterans’ Day took hold. So, on the eleventh day of the eleventh month, at the eleventh hour, we celebrate