Tenth Starship/Superheavy launch scrubbed due to ground equipment issue
SpaceX today scrubbed the tenth orbital test launch of its Starship/Superheavy rocket due to an issue with ground equipment,
The launch has been rescheduled for August 25, 2025, with a launch window opening at 6:30 pm (Central), Live stream here.
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 or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. 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
With the milkstool having been modified into an ersatz static test stand—what with hold-downs aplenty—it might be that they wanted to make double sure there wasn’t a snag.
“Billy-Bob? You did remove all the tie-downs, right?”
“Yeah yeah…sure-sure…..zzzzzz”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiYXBbqKjPU