August 22, 2025 Quick space linksCourtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay, who apologizes for the lateness due to a hectic day at work. 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.
- Chinese pseudo-company Nayuta Space releases movie animation showing how its proposed first stage will return to Earth
It would land horizontally, not vertically. Assuming this fantasy ever actually happens.
- Astronomers prove that millimeter radiation is generated close to the core of a supermassive black hole
Need I say it?
- India’s space agency ISRO touts a fullscale model of the 1st module of India’s Bharatiya Antariksh Station (BAS)
The full station will have five modules, assembled in orbit from ’28 to ’35, if all goes as scheduled.
- 60 years ago Gemini-5 was the first mission to use fuel cells to power a manned spacecraft
Proving out that technology was essential for the Apollo missions, as NASA had determined that solar power was not yet ready.
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, who apologizes for the lateness due to a hectic day at work. 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.
- Chinese pseudo-company Nayuta Space releases movie animation showing how its proposed first stage will return to Earth
It would land horizontally, not vertically. Assuming this fantasy ever actually happens.
- Astronomers prove that millimeter radiation is generated close to the core of a supermassive black hole
Need I say it?
- India’s space agency ISRO touts a fullscale model of the 1st module of India’s Bharatiya Antariksh Station (BAS)
The full station will have five modules, assembled in orbit from ’28 to ’35, if all goes as scheduled.
- 60 years ago Gemini-5 was the first mission to use fuel cells to power a manned spacecraft
Proving out that technology was essential for the Apollo missions, as NASA had determined that solar power was not yet ready.
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
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