December 11, 2024 Quick space links
Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay. 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.
- Vast touts completion of the primary structure of its Haven-1 module, still targeting a 2025 launch
Next on the list is “painting, window, and hatch integration,” then pressure and load testing.
- Spanish rocket startup PLD touts the on-going work on its Miura-5 orbital rocket
The company is targeting a 2025 launch date.
- Chinese pseudo-company CosmoLeap touts the on-going development of its “Leap-1” “chopstick” reusable liquid rocket
It is very dangerous building things like this by watching youtube videos of SpaceX Starship/Superheavy launches. Some very important details will not be evident.
- Video of Tiangong-3 astronauts adding protective layers to the front and back of station’s hatches
The shields are obvious designed to lower the risk of impact to the hatch while it is open during spacewalks. Damage at that time might prevent the astronauts from getting back inside.
- On this day in 1972 Apollo 17 landed on the Moon
Fifty-two years later it remains the last time humans walked on another planet.
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. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit.
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. 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.
- Vast touts completion of the primary structure of its Haven-1 module, still targeting a 2025 launch
Next on the list is “painting, window, and hatch integration,” then pressure and load testing.
- Spanish rocket startup PLD touts the on-going work on its Miura-5 orbital rocket
The company is targeting a 2025 launch date.
- Chinese pseudo-company CosmoLeap touts the on-going development of its “Leap-1” “chopstick” reusable liquid rocket
It is very dangerous building things like this by watching youtube videos of SpaceX Starship/Superheavy launches. Some very important details will not be evident.
- Video of Tiangong-3 astronauts adding protective layers to the front and back of station’s hatches
The shields are obvious designed to lower the risk of impact to the hatch while it is open during spacewalks. Damage at that time might prevent the astronauts from getting back inside.
- On this day in 1972 Apollo 17 landed on the Moon
Fifty-two years later it remains the last time humans walked on another planet.
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. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. 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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