Antares launches Cygnus freighter to ISS
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Capitalism in space: Northrop Grumman’s Antares rocket today successfully launched a Cygnus freighter to ISS.
This was Northrop Grumman’s first launch in 2019. The company hopes to complete 4 launches this year.
Meanwhile the leaders in the 2019 launch race remain unchanged:
4 SpaceX
4 China
4 Europe (Arianespace)
3 Russia
The U.S. however has widened its lead in the national rankings, 8 to 4.
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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.
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
Capitalism in space: Northrop Grumman’s Antares rocket today successfully launched a Cygnus freighter to ISS.
This was Northrop Grumman’s first launch in 2019. The company hopes to complete 4 launches this year.
Meanwhile the leaders in the 2019 launch race remain unchanged:
4 SpaceX
4 China
4 Europe (Arianespace)
3 Russia
The U.S. however has widened its lead in the national rankings, 8 to 4.
My July fund-raiser for Behind the Black is now over. The support from my readers was unprecedented, making this July campaign the best ever, twice over. What a marvelous way to celebrate the website's tenth anniversary!
Thank you! The number of donations in July, and continuing now at the beginning of August, is too many for me to thank you all personally. Please forgive me by accepting my thank you here, in public, on the website.
If you did not donate or subscribe in July and still wish to, note that the tip jar remains available year round.
Regular readers can support Behind The Black with a contribution via paypal:
If Paypal doesn't work for you, you can support Behind The Black directly by sending your donation by check, payable to Robert Zimmerman, to
Behind The Black
c/o Robert Zimmerman
P.O.Box 1262
Cortaro, AZ 85652
With Cygus at station this week (assuming 1-2 day orbit time, arriving today/tomorrow) and SpaceX launching CRS-17 on Friday next week, we should see both CBM ports occupied by US vehicles. Yay!
Russia usually keeps 4 vehicles on their end (2 Soyuz, 2 Progress, and previously 1 ATV from Europe) and there have been 6 vehicles (ATV, HTV, Shuttle, and 2 Soyuz, 1 progress Feb 2011 (STS 133 mission).
https://i.stack.imgur.com/VJ6bd.jpg
One day we might see as many as seven, but unlikely.