China launches classified technology test satellite
China today successfully launched a classified technology test satellite using its Long March 2D rocket lifting off from its Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China.
No word on where the expendable first stage crashed within China.
The leaders in the 2022 launch race:
49 SpaceX
46 China
18 Russia
8 Rocket Lab
7 ULA
American private enterprise still leads China 69 to 46 in the national rankings, though it trails the rest of the world combined 73 to 69.
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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
China today successfully launched a classified technology test satellite using its Long March 2D rocket lifting off from its Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China.
No word on where the expendable first stage crashed within China.
The leaders in the 2022 launch race:
49 SpaceX
46 China
18 Russia
8 Rocket Lab
7 ULA
American private enterprise still leads China 69 to 46 in the national rankings, though it trails the rest of the world combined 73 to 69.
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
I prefer to call the country run by the murderers in Beijing Red China or Commie China to distinguish them from the Republic of China with its seat on the island of Taiwan.