March 25, 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.
- SLS core stage for next Artemis mission lifted upright
This will be for the first Artemis manned mission around the Moon. I fear for those astronauts’ lives.
- China touts the construction progress for its Long March 10 launchpad at Wenchang spaceport
This is where it hopes to launch its manned Moon missions.
- Video showing disassembly of high bay at Starbase to make room for much larger “Giga Bay”
The larger bay will allow faster assembly line manufacture of Starship/Superheavy.
- Happy 97th birthday to astronaut Jim Lovell, who in the 1960s and 1970s was the world’s most traveled spaceman
Lovell flew on Gemini 7 (the first mission lasting two weeks), Gemini 12 (refining docking, rendezvous, and spacewalk technology), Apollo 8 (the first human mission to orbit another world), and Apollo 13 (which started out as a lunar landing mission and instead became one of the greatest space rescue missions of all time).
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.
- SLS core stage for next Artemis mission lifted upright
This will be for the first Artemis manned mission around the Moon. I fear for those astronauts’ lives.
- China touts the construction progress for its Long March 10 launchpad at Wenchang spaceport
This is where it hopes to launch its manned Moon missions.
- Video showing disassembly of high bay at Starbase to make room for much larger “Giga Bay”
The larger bay will allow faster assembly line manufacture of Starship/Superheavy.
- Happy 97th birthday to astronaut Jim Lovell, who in the 1960s and 1970s was the world’s most traveled spaceman
Lovell flew on Gemini 7 (the first mission lasting two weeks), Gemini 12 (refining docking, rendezvous, and spacewalk technology), Apollo 8 (the first human mission to orbit another world), and Apollo 13 (which started out as a lunar landing mission and instead became one of the greatest space rescue missions of all time).