November 6, 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.
- Is that a dent on China’s manned Shenzhou capsule, immediately after landing?
If so it suggests the landing was harder than intended. I remain unsure however if that isn’t a normal indentation.
- SpaceX is congratulated for its 400th Falcon launch, taking cargo to ISS
The tweet says the company is targeting 30 more launches this year.
- China to inaugurate flights of its Long March 10A in 2026, claiming it is for lunar landings and will have a reusable first stage
Jays says it is a knock-off of New Glenn. I have great doubts it will fly by 2026.
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.
- Is that a dent on China’s manned Shenzhou capsule, immediately after landing?
If so it suggests the landing was harder than intended. I remain unsure however if that isn’t a normal indentation.
- SpaceX is congratulated for its 400th Falcon launch, taking cargo to ISS
The tweet says the company is targeting 30 more launches this year.
- China to inaugurate flights of its Long March 10A in 2026, claiming it is for lunar landings and will have a reusable first stage
Jays says it is a knock-off of New Glenn. I have great doubts it will fly by 2026.
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
Pat Buchanan in 1992:
“Make America first again”
https://youtu.be/qBm7SZ_WjYY
10:23
“Is that a dent on China’s manned Shenzhou capsule, immediately after landing?”
I’d say a part of the spacecraft design. No unusual damage to the paint, lettering inside the depression appears intact, no apparent marks inside the depression, and very uniform for accidental damage.
I remember the footage of an earlier capsule that hit hard and rolled.
It didn’t slow them down one bit. I respect that.
I believe Blair has it right.
Craft materials are very thin, and will bulge outward during pressuring causing misalignment of the hatch if not reinforced. The dent allows reinforcement for where the metal needs to be remain rigid without increasing weight, similar to the dent in the bottom of a pop can.