China launches three astronauts to Tiangong station
The new colonial movement: Using its Long March 2F rocket, China has successfully launched three astronauts into orbit for a six month mission to its Tiangong space station.
The crew will be transported to the station in China’s Shenzhou capsule, docking about six hours after launch. During this mission China will also launch the last two large modules planned for the station, completing its initial construction by the end of the year.
I have embedded the live stream below the fold, cued to just before launch.
The leaders in the 2022 launch race:
22 SpaceX
18 China
8 Russia
3 Rocket Lab
3 ULA
The U.S. still leads China 31 to 18 in the national rankings, as well as the entire globe combined, 31 to 29.
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
The new colonial movement: Using its Long March 2F rocket, China has successfully launched three astronauts into orbit for a six month mission to its Tiangong space station.
The crew will be transported to the station in China’s Shenzhou capsule, docking about six hours after launch. During this mission China will also launch the last two large modules planned for the station, completing its initial construction by the end of the year.
I have embedded the live stream below the fold, cued to just before launch.
The leaders in the 2022 launch race:
22 SpaceX
18 China
8 Russia
3 Rocket Lab
3 ULA
The U.S. still leads China 31 to 18 in the national rankings, as well as the entire globe combined, 31 to 29.
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
They have a passion for space…
Jeff,
They have a passion for totalitarian control of any space they inhabit. I think that’s the passion. I think it’s less a romantic attachment to space exploration. You could argue that – functionally- or might not matter. But I think someone like Musk has a passion to push frontiers and is using his company to pursue the passion, while making a buck at the same time.
They have reached orbit
https://spacenews.com/shenzhou-14-crewed-mission-arrives-at-chinese-space-station/
https://m.bilibili.com/video/BV1GL4y1K7YN