# The Weekend Wrap: NASA's Bold Swift Rescue, Cosmic Demolition Derby Unfolds Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/astronomy-daily-space-news-updates-5658676/the-weekend-wrap-nasa-s-bold-swift-rescue-cosmic-demolition-derby-unfolds Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/astronomy-daily-space-news-updates-5658676/the-weekend-wrap-nasa-s-bold-swift-rescue-cosmic-demolition-derby-unfolds.md Podcast: [Astronomy Daily: Latest Space News](https://stenobird.com/podcast/astronomy-daily-space-news-updates-5658676) Published: 2026-06-28T09:01:15+00:00 Episode link: http://astronomydaily.io Audio file: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/mgln.ai/track/op3.dev/e/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72726993/the_weekend_wrap_nasa_s_bold_swift_rescue_cosmic_demolition_derby_unfolds_1.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/astronomy-daily-space-news-updates-5658676/episodes/the-weekend-wrap-nasa-s-bold-swift-rescue-cosmic-demolition-derby-unfolds Duration seconds: 844 ## Resource Weekend Space & Astronomy News Wrap | Saturday, June 27, 2026 It's our Saturday wrap β€” and what a week it's been for space and astronomy! Join Anna and Avery for two brand-new stories plus the four biggest headlines from the past five days. THIS WEEK'S STORIES πŸš€ NASA's Daring Swift Rescue Mission Launches Today NASA's Swift Boost mission launched this morning, sending the LINK robotic servicing spacecraft to rescue the 22-year-old Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory from orbital decay. Built in under a year by startup Katalyst Space Technologies, LINK will rendezvous with Swift, grab it with robotic arms, and boost it to a safer orbit β€” a historic first for commercial spacecraft servicing. 🌌 JWST Catches Six Galaxies Merging Into One of the Universe's Largest The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a 'cosmic demolition derby' β€” at least six galaxies in the process of merging, seen as they were 12 billion years ago. The system TGSSJ1530+1049 hosts hundreds of billions of solar masses of stars and a growing supermassive black hole, offering a rare front-row seat to galaxy and black hole formation happening simultaneously. β˜„οΈ WEEKLY WRAP: Lucy's Peanut-Shaped Wobbling Asteroid NASA's Lucy mission has revealed that asteroid Donaldjohanson tumbles on two axes simultaneously β€” an unexpected discovery published in Science this week. Lucy also found evidence of ancient water interaction and traced the asteroid's violent origin to a collision 155 million years ago. A preview of what Lucy will reveal at Jupiter's Trojans. πŸͺ¨ WEEKLY WRAP: Asteroid 1997 NC1 Passes Earth Today A 1-kilometre-wide asteroid makes its closest approach to Earth today β€” at 1.5 million miles (about 7 times the Earth-Moon distance). Completely safe and well-tracked, it's a great telescope target for South… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/astronomy-daily-space-news-updates-5658676/episodes/the-weekend-wrap-nasa-s-bold-swift-rescue-cosmic-demolition-derby-unfolds/transcription-requests` β€” Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/astronomy-daily-space-news-updates-5658676/the-weekend-wrap-nasa-s-bold-swift-rescue-cosmic-demolition-derby-unfolds.md` β€” Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.