August 16, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
Embedded below the fold. We discussed the journey of Curiosity of course. I also spent some time elaborating on some of the engineering advantages SpaceX has because of its success at vertically landing its Falcon 9 first stages.
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
Embedded below the fold. We discussed the journey of Curiosity of course. I also spent some time elaborating on some of the engineering advantages SpaceX has because of its success at vertically landing its Falcon 9 first stages.
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
Red Dragon 2018 would land more mass on Mars than the sum of all other landers on Mars have!
And if successful, it would prove that astronauts could be landed on Mars. Today. In a Dragon capsule ejected from a larger Earth-Mars transit vehicle. Although NASA claims that it is impossible to land humans on Mars without tens of tons and some huge, yet non-existent, inflatable heat shield. Reality will tell us who understand physics the best. Reality never cheats.
As long as NASA remains a politicians lap-dog bitch, it will never improve.
Orion314
Unless the politician is a space nerd! Newt Gingrich is as close we can get to that, I guess. He’s seriously educated and thoughtful. But he unbelievably said that he wants space solar power beamed down to Earth to replace coal power plants.
So that pretty much settles it. NASA maybe does better as a lap-dog bitch than being kicked out of the House. A dog has to try to be happy with whatever it gets. And it’s still fed for survival. NASA is still alive. It still has got a chance. Gotta fight to the end.
So this is a very unfair and evil way to sum it up. But it shows how the “space debate” goes around in the presidential elections. Even when a most respected and intelligent candidate tries to bring up the very reasonable idea of building a crewed base on the Moon. In MSM he’s immediately a lunatic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLjBz5LdRK8
No, no, there’s nothing in the blackness above your head at night. Don’t worry about those dots, they don’t exist. Nothing to see here.