April 27, 2026 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.
- New dates for future American ISS manned missions: Crew 13 (September 12, 2026); Crew 14 (March 2027); Crew 15/Starliner-2 (October 2027)
Before that Starliner manned mission an unmanned cargo mission must happen first, and it must go off without a hitch.
- Video of Russian astronauts during spacewalk in 2018, finding the hole drilled in the Soyuz capsule before launch
Though they had sealed the hole on the inside of the capsule, they wanted to look at it on the outside to confirm it was man-made. Though the Russians have said they figured out who drilled the hole, eight years later they still refuse to tell anyone.
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.
- New dates for future American ISS manned missions: Crew 13 (September 12, 2026); Crew 14 (March 2027); Crew 15/Starliner-2 (October 2027)
Before that Starliner manned mission an unmanned cargo mission must happen first, and it must go off without a hitch.
- Video of Russian astronauts during spacewalk in 2018, finding the hole drilled in the Soyuz capsule before launch
Though they had sealed the hole on the inside of the capsule, they wanted to look at it on the outside to confirm it was man-made. Though the Russians have said they figured out who drilled the hole, eight years later they still refuse to tell anyone.
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


Shortcut?
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-interplanetary-shortcut-mars.html
Break out of the box
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-ideas-physics-based.html