Falcon 9 launch rescheduled for Sunday
SpaceX has scheduled their next Falcon 9 launch attempt for 6:47 pm (eastern) on Sunday, February 28.
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SpaceX has scheduled their next Falcon 9 launch attempt for 6:47 pm (eastern) on Sunday, February 28.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Hopefully awaiting the launch.
-Edward, I downloaded the Falcon 9 “users manual” pdf from spaceX, –answered all my techie-questions & because of your prior effort, I was able to follow it pretty well.
I’m getting older, but how Cool is all this! We can watch a rocket launch, into space, on-demand, in streaming HD, on our Computers or phone.
(Sound like my parents now)– Remember when television was B&W, we had 3 networks, there was only The Phone Company, all telephones were basically black, we had am radios, TV-sets had tubes, music came on vinyl records, we had more Freedom, our money had value…?
Boy… our ancestors didn’t struggle, so we could get to this point, and let it all crash down, into some dystopian politically-bizzaro, world of the Future.
Wayne wrote: “I downloaded the Falcon 9 “users manual” pdf from spaceX”
Great find! Clearly I am not perusing the commercial space companies’ web pages well enough. I used to write shake-test and acoustic-test procedures using documents like this.
“but how Cool is all this!”
Yeah, it’s amazing.
If you get the chance, watch a rocket launch in person. You miss the technical explanations that are seen in a video, such as SpaceX does, but there is something about the roar and the sight that I find thrilling.
Edward-
Good deal. The SpaceX website is fairly complete & they present everything w/o dumbing it down.
Sorry to hear the launch was scrubbed today.
YES! I did see Apollo-8 blast-off, in person, in 1968. Most spectacular thing I ever saw, in my entire life. Highly recommend everyone witness a (any) rocket launch. Tour NASA as well– amazing stuff. Fortunately as a kid I was able to visit every State east of the Mississippi & a large fraction of their respective Planetarium’s & Historical Landmarks.