June 3, 2024 Quick space links
Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay. This post is also an open thread. I welcome my readers to post any comments or additional links relating to any space issues, even if unrelated to the links below.
- DARPA awards small contract to startup Momentus to study how to build large structures in space
Momentus will fly small experiments that will be flown the company’s Vigoride orbital tugs.
- Chinese pseudo-company Deep Blue touts video of leg deployment and drop test of the first stage of its proposed Nebula-1 rocket
The drop was from about 3-5 feet off the ground.
- Another Chinese pseudo-company touts a proposed new rocket
The company is called Fancy Space, and it apparently has nothing at this point but a cool video.
- On this day in 1965, Ed White performed the first American spacewalk during the Gemini-4 mission
White died in the Apollo-1 launchpad fire in 1967.
- On this day in 1966, the Gemini-9 mission launched, crewed by Tom Stafford and Gene Cernan
The goal was to achieve the first completely successful docking in space, but the shroud on the target spacecraft only partly released, preventing the docking. Instead, Stafford and Cernan flew in formation, taking great pictures of that spacecraft, looking like “an angry alligator.”
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 print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit.
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
Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay. This post is also an open thread. I welcome my readers to post any comments or additional links relating to any space issues, even if unrelated to the links below.
- DARPA awards small contract to startup Momentus to study how to build large structures in space
Momentus will fly small experiments that will be flown the company’s Vigoride orbital tugs.
- Chinese pseudo-company Deep Blue touts video of leg deployment and drop test of the first stage of its proposed Nebula-1 rocket
The drop was from about 3-5 feet off the ground.
- Another Chinese pseudo-company touts a proposed new rocket
The company is called Fancy Space, and it apparently has nothing at this point but a cool video.
- On this day in 1965, Ed White performed the first American spacewalk during the Gemini-4 mission
White died in the Apollo-1 launchpad fire in 1967.
- On this day in 1966, the Gemini-9 mission launched, crewed by Tom Stafford and Gene Cernan
The goal was to achieve the first completely successful docking in space, but the shroud on the target spacecraft only partly released, preventing the docking. Instead, Stafford and Cernan flew in formation, taking great pictures of that spacecraft, looking like “an angry alligator.”
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 print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. 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
Minor correction, White flew Gemini 4.
I’ll drop this in here:
Gemini 9A Full Mission
Retro Space (2023)
https://youtu.be/EIUTv9OM008
(51:31)
“The Gemini IX mission, entirely based on historical narration, mission audio and footage. The full mission is covered, showing training, launch, Agena rendezvous, EVA, recovery and results.”
Patrick Underwood. Typo fixed. I misread the roman numerals, when I should have just used my own brain. Thanks.
and this one.
(very well done)
The Roger B. Chaffee Planetarium (2014)
Grand Rapids Public Museum, Grand Rapids, Mi.
https://youtu.be/8QYRGP9S8pM
6:23
The first docking in space was achieved by Gemini 8
Chris–
Gemini 8 –
“We’ve Got Serious Problems Here….”
https://youtu.be/WniA1hsqsPs
(1:04:15)
“The crew perform the first docking of two spacecraft in orbit, which is followed, not long afterwards, with the near catastrophic incident. Unknown to the crew, a thruster on Gemini becomes stuck open and the docked spacecraft begin to yaw. Thinking the issue is with the Agena, the crew separate from it, but the yaw turns into a spin as the thruster continues to spew fuel out the side of the spacecraft. As the crew regains contact with CSQ the drama unfolds…..”
On the northeast side of San Antonio, there is a middle school name Ed White Middle School. Named for THE Ed White, of course.
Chris: I should have said the “first completely successful docking”, as Gemini 8 has serious problems that caused an immediate mission abort only 30 minutes after that docking. Though the problem, an out of control attitude thruster, was believed to be independent of the docking, no one could be sure until it was done again.
I have added the appropriate words.
Catch Thirty-Thr33-
Good stuff.
Apparently, there’s a Roger B. Chaffee Elementary School, and the Virgil Grissom High School, in Huntsville, Alabama.