July 16, 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.
- Sierra Space wins contract from Mitsubishi to deliver hardware to ISS
Though the press release does not say, we must assume delivery will be via Sierra’s Tenacity mini-shuttle, which still has not flown and is years behind schedule. That the release does not mention Tenacity however is not a good thing, suggesting Sierra is not sure it will be available for use and will need to find other alternatives.
- Gilmour again scrubs the first launch today of its new Eris rocket due to weather
It has set a new launch window beginning on July 27th.
- On this day fifty years ago the last Apollo capsule was launched on the last Saturn-1B rocket
The mission would dock with the Soviet Union’s Soyuz capsule and complete the first U.S.-Soviet joint space mission.
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.
- Sierra Space wins contract from Mitsubishi to deliver hardware to ISS
Though the press release does not say, we must assume delivery will be via Sierra’s Tenacity mini-shuttle, which still has not flown and is years behind schedule. That the release does not mention Tenacity however is not a good thing, suggesting Sierra is not sure it will be available for use and will need to find other alternatives.
- Gilmour again scrubs the first launch today of its new Eris rocket due to weather
It has set a new launch window beginning on July 27th.
- On this day fifty years ago the last Apollo capsule was launched on the last Saturn-1B rocket
The mission would dock with the Soviet Union’s Soyuz capsule and complete the first U.S.-Soviet joint space mission.
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
“inner space”
Test Cannikin (November 1971)
Amchitka Island, Alaska
https://youtu.be/1JJEPBLL4E8
12:55
“Spartan Missile warhead effects test.
5 megaton underground detonation at a depth of 5,875 feet
Those could have replaced the Panama Canal had the anti-nukes left things alone.
In today’s phys.org, there is an article with the title: “New Copper Alloy Shows Shape Memory Effect at -200°C For Space Use.”
You know, the Grace re-entry and 1972:s Daylight Fireball have more in common than either has with Peekskill.