This long standing division between "real NASA" and "contractors" is a pet peeve of mine. If you're going to save on benefits money by not hiring people as civil servants, at least have the system treat them with more respect.

I take it back, Mike Collins grew one on Apollo 11

Yes, I think Garriott was the first.

I infer that because the orbit inclination is very similar to Shiyan 10s and TJS 13.

100% agree

Wait, which one is Mordor?

Nope. The words are just cover for 'we're not going to tell you what this is up to', just like all the NRO's satellites are registered with the UN as 'development of spaceflight techniques and technology'.

Yes. The sat is being tracked in GEO at its target 93.5E location

Shenzhou 2 to 6 carried a thruster on the module for experiments. Shenzhou 7 and later didn't have this thruster.

Congratulations, Dr. Turner!