The next Antares launch attempt has now been scheduled for Saturday, April 20, 5 pm (Eastern).
The next Antares launch attempt has now been scheduled for Saturday, April 20, 5 pm (Eastern).
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The next Antares launch attempt has now been scheduled for Saturday, April 20, 5 pm (Eastern).
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
I like how their launch times allow for easy viewing. No staying up until midnight.
The wide launch windows and the 5 P.M. EDT launch targets on each of the launch attempt days are a function of the fact that this initial test launch just has to get their Cygnus simulator into orbit, but it doesn’t have to rendezvous with anything. As of their next mission, Orbital will be constrained by the same orbital mechanics as SpaceX’s recent missions, i.e., zero-tolerance launch windows and launch timing keyed to the orbital position of the ISS. Math is a harsh mistress.
If there is anything that I have learned from being a space cadet, it is that math is the idea killer.
Thanks for pointing out why they don’t have to launch at some ungodly hour, this time…