September 11, 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.
- Today in 2007 Cassini snapped the first high-resolution image of Saturn’s moon Iapetus during its closest flyby
The picture at the link is quite amazing.
- ESA completes mission design review of lunar rover Magpie, being built by the European division of Japanese lunar lander startup Ispace
It will land near the Moon’s south pole, with a launch date targeting 2028.
- On this night in 1967 Surveyor 5 landed on the lunar surface in the Sea of Tranquility
It was the first spacecraft to conduct a soil analysis on the Moon. Jay adds, “Surveyor 5 landed nearly out of fuel and on a nearly 20° slope.”
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
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.
- Today in 2007 Cassini snapped the first high-resolution image of Saturn’s moon Iapetus during its closest flyby
The picture at the link is quite amazing.
- ESA completes mission design review of lunar rover Magpie, being built by the European division of Japanese lunar lander startup Ispace
It will land near the Moon’s south pole, with a launch date targeting 2028.
- On this night in 1967 Surveyor 5 landed on the lunar surface in the Sea of Tranquility
It was the first spacecraft to conduct a soil analysis on the Moon. Jay adds, “Surveyor 5 landed nearly out of fuel and on a nearly 20° slope.”
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