Rosetta’s end
In anticipation of the end of the Rosetta mission at the end of this month on September 30, the Rosetta science team has produced an excellent video, embedded below, providing a good summary of the mission and what it learned.
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
In anticipation of the end of the Rosetta mission at the end of this month on September 30, the Rosetta science team has produced an excellent video, embedded below, providing a good summary of the mission and what it learned.
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
Thanks Mr. Z., Absolutely, amazing!
Also from the ESA, very cool display of the “route,” Rosetta took.
I never cease to be amazed by “orbital mechanics,” and the brilliant folks who know how to figure it all out.
“Animation visualizing Rosetta’s two-year journey around Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko”
https://youtu.be/RnwwxZwUSCY
(3:43 total.)
(“The trajectory shown in this animation is created from real data, but the comet rotation is not.”)