Russia completes first launch in 2025Russia early today completed its first launch in 2025, its Soyuz-2 rocket lifting off from the Plesetsk spaceport in northwest Russia and carrying an unspecified number of military payloads.
The 2025 launch race:
The 2025 launch race:
16 SpaceX
6 China
1 Blue Origin
1 India
1 Japan
1 Russia
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Russia early today completed its first launch in 2025, its Soyuz-2 rocket lifting off from the Plesetsk spaceport in northwest Russia and carrying an unspecified number of military payloads.
The 2025 launch race:
The 2025 launch race:
16 SpaceX
6 China
1 Blue Origin
1 India
1 Japan
1 Russia
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
This used a Soyuz 2.1v model, which is a naked Soyuz (Core only, none of the 4 side boosters) and a NK-33 engine!
These are the engines Aeroject certified as AJ-26s that Antares used, until they blew up a launch because of the engines.
Interesting that the Russians went ahead with using the engines themselves. Guess they have more confidence in them now.