Cygnus completes mission to ISS
Cygnus has successfully completed its cargo mission to ISS, burning up upon re-entry on Sunday.
The story includes images of the re-entry taken by astronauts on ISS.
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Cygnus has successfully completed its cargo mission to ISS, burning up upon re-entry on Sunday.
The story includes images of the re-entry taken by astronauts on ISS.
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 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
It is noteworthy that Cygnus and Dragon are taking the role of the now discontinued European ATV (the current flight being the last). After several companies competed with each other during the COTS portion of the program, these two companies won the Commercial Resupply Services contracts.
The ATV program took about 55,000 lbs to the ISS and cost $5 billion. During their CRS contract periods, Cygnus can take about 16,000 lbs (2,000 lbs per flight) for a cost of $2 billion, and Dragon can take 84,000 lbs (7,000 lbs per flight) for a cost of $1.6 billion (or $2 billion, if you choose to include development costs).
It looks like the commercial companies, which are new to this type of business, are already performing about as well as the older government agencies. Ain’t competition a nice thing?