Antares rocket successfully launches Cygnus freighter to ISS
Capitalism in space: Northrop Grumman’s Antares rocket today successfully launched a Cygnus cargo capsule to ISS.
This was the fourth launch this year for Northrop Grumman’s launch division, which was once the company Orbital ATK. It was also the most in a single year for that division since it launched five times in 2013.
26 China
20 SpaceX
12 Russia
4 Northrop Grumman
The U.S. now leads China 31 to 26 in the national rankings.
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Capitalism in space: Northrop Grumman’s Antares rocket today successfully launched a Cygnus cargo capsule to ISS.
This was the fourth launch this year for Northrop Grumman’s launch division, which was once the company Orbital ATK. It was also the most in a single year for that division since it launched five times in 2013.
26 China
20 SpaceX
12 Russia
4 Northrop Grumman
The U.S. now leads China 31 to 26 in the national rankings.
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
The US reliance on Russian rocket engine continues.
(RD-191 is a cool engine though. So is the Rd-180 on Atlas V)
Good thing there is SpaceX.
The mission patch for the NG-16 resupply flight is pretty cool . . .
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That is a nice patch. Sure MARS in Virginia is an acronym, but sure would make Musk’s job easier.