Australia finally okays Hayabusa-2 capsule return
Though it really has been a foregone conclusion for more than a year, the Australian government this week gave its stamp of approval allowing the return capsule of Hayabusa-2 to land in Australia on December 6, 2020, bringing with it samples from the asteroid Ryugu.
What would we do without government bureaucrats!?
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Though it really has been a foregone conclusion for more than a year, the Australian government this week gave its stamp of approval allowing the return capsule of Hayabusa-2 to land in Australia on December 6, 2020, bringing with it samples from the asteroid Ryugu.
What would we do without government bureaucrats!?
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
No worries. There’s only kangaroos there.
“‘There’s only kangaroos there!’: How the fall of the American station (Skylab in 1979) stirred up the Australian outback”
“In one of the newspapers, the words of a NASA employee were conveyed, which stated that the fall of the station in Australia is the lesser of evils, because only kangaroos live there.”
https://hybridtechcar.com/2018/04/05/theres-only-kangaroos-there-how-the-fall-of-the-american-station-stirred-up-the-australian-outback/
Dateline: December, 2035. ”We now know the alien virus had its origin in the returned probe, coming down in Australia…“.
Isn’t this how Shawn of the Dead started?
I’ve flown around Australia in a small aircraft. Most of it is only good for strip mining, storing radioactive waste and keeping the coasts apart. Oh, and landing space probes.
They okay:ed it only because the Japs threatened to otherwise land it there anyway, aiming it an an appropriate little head.
Seems to me that launching a probe that is supposed to return a sample.. the return location shoulda been planned out before launch…
Maybe I am just over thinking it.