March 25, 2025 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.
- SLS core stage for next Artemis mission lifted upright
This will be for the first Artemis manned mission around the Moon. I fear for those astronauts’ lives.
- China touts the construction progress for its Long March 10 launchpad at Wenchang spaceport
This is where it hopes to launch its manned Moon missions.
- Video showing disassembly of high bay at Starbase to make room for much larger “Giga Bay”
The larger bay will allow faster assembly line manufacture of Starship/Superheavy.
- Happy 97th birthday to astronaut Jim Lovell, who in the 1960s and 1970s was the world’s most traveled spaceman
Lovell flew on Gemini 7 (the first mission lasting two weeks), Gemini 12 (refining docking, rendezvous, and spacewalk technology), Apollo 8 (the first human mission to orbit another world), and Apollo 13 (which started out as a lunar landing mission and instead became one of the greatest space rescue missions of all time).
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.
- SLS core stage for next Artemis mission lifted upright
This will be for the first Artemis manned mission around the Moon. I fear for those astronauts’ lives.
- China touts the construction progress for its Long March 10 launchpad at Wenchang spaceport
This is where it hopes to launch its manned Moon missions.
- Video showing disassembly of high bay at Starbase to make room for much larger “Giga Bay”
The larger bay will allow faster assembly line manufacture of Starship/Superheavy.
- Happy 97th birthday to astronaut Jim Lovell, who in the 1960s and 1970s was the world’s most traveled spaceman
Lovell flew on Gemini 7 (the first mission lasting two weeks), Gemini 12 (refining docking, rendezvous, and spacewalk technology), Apollo 8 (the first human mission to orbit another world), and Apollo 13 (which started out as a lunar landing mission and instead became one of the greatest space rescue missions of all time).
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
CBS Eye on the World
The Flight of Apollo 8
Robert Zimmerman
(19:18)
https://archive.org/details/50-50-the-flight-of-apollo-8-with-robert-zimmerman-john-batchelor
Apollo 8
Amateur Super-8 Launch Film
(2:40)
https://archive.org/details/apollo-8-december-1968-super-8mm-1440x-1080
Trump has nominated Greg Autry to be NASA’s CFO. Not a huge surprise.
https://spacenews.com/white-house-nominates-autry-to-be-nasas-chief-financial-officer/
What do you think about this article?
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/03/as-preps-continue-its-looking-more-likely-nasa-will-fly-the-artemis-ii-mission
From what I have heard you say on the John Batchelor show this article sound way more positive.