August 15, 2025 Quick space linksCourtesy 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.
- Intuitive Machines submits its lunar rover proposal for manned missions to the Moon
Why am I not surprised that it has a high profile, higher than other proposals?
- New Glenn team just finished aft module tests of 1st stage for its second New Glenn launch
It appears this is the system that deploys the legs. Launch is scheduled for September 29, 2025.
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.
- Intuitive Machines submits its lunar rover proposal for manned missions to the Moon
Why am I not surprised that it has a high profile, higher than other proposals?
- New Glenn team just finished aft module tests of 1st stage for its second New Glenn launch
It appears this is the system that deploys the legs. Launch is scheduled for September 29, 2025.
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
Just get one of Jay Leno’s suffragette electric cars that looked like phone booths.
This annoying bit of news is, unfortunately worth flagging:
https://www.expressnews.com/business/article/spacex-starship-test-flight-starbase-texas-launch-20819326.php
So, basically, they plan to show up with over 50 boats during Starship Flight 10 to force a range violation and delay the launch over ‘environmental concerns’. And the local Mexican government has given them the green light to try.
And if they succeed in entering the restricted area, SpaceX will be forced to cancel the launch.
Send in the Coast Guard, Mr. President. With prejudice.
I have a copy of the official notice, if anyone wants to see it.