April 10, 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.
- Roof and facility damage at Blue Origin’s Cape Canaveral test facility suggests it had a unintentional testing failure
The tweet says it is related to “a GS2 tank in the 2Cat test facility”.
- Blue Origin announces successful thermal vacuum chamber testing of its unmanned Blue Moon Mark-1 lunar lander
It is dubbed Endurance, and is now being shipped back to Florida. The company still plans to launch it to the Moon this year.
- Animation of Astrolab’s small Flip demo lunar rover, set to launch later this year on Astrobotic’s Griffin lander
Astrolab hopes the success of Flip will help it win a NASA contract to build its manned Flex rover.
- Images of Orion in space, taken by the Hale Telescope at Palomar Observatory
Its nothing more than a dot, but it is still cool a ground-based telescope can track it.
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.
- Roof and facility damage at Blue Origin’s Cape Canaveral test facility suggests it had a unintentional testing failure
The tweet says it is related to “a GS2 tank in the 2Cat test facility”.
- Blue Origin announces successful thermal vacuum chamber testing of its unmanned Blue Moon Mark-1 lunar lander
It is dubbed Endurance, and is now being shipped back to Florida. The company still plans to launch it to the Moon this year.
- Animation of Astrolab’s small Flip demo lunar rover, set to launch later this year on Astrobotic’s Griffin lander
Astrolab hopes the success of Flip will help it win a NASA contract to build its manned Flex rover.
- Images of Orion in space, taken by the Hale Telescope at Palomar Observatory
Its nothing more than a dot, but it is still cool a ground-based telescope can track it.
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