December 27, 2023 Quick space links
Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay.
- Engineers testing solar panel design for Roman Space Telescope
These are not the panels themselves, but engineering models for testing.
- Chinese pseudo-company Orien says it will launch its Gravity-1 rocket within days
The image at the link shows a launch from a sea platform. The pseudo-company has raised considerable investment capital. It has also promised this launch by the end of 2023 for months. Not much time left.
- Fifty-five years ago today Apollo 8 splashed down in the Pacific, completing humanity’s first journey to another world
After splashdown, as described in my book, Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8:
After about half an hour the sky had brightened enough for divers to hit the water and attach a flotation collar to the capsule. As everyone waited for the hatch to open, someone in a rescue helicopter radioed a question to these three first-time lunar explorers. “Hey, Apollo 8, is the moon made of green cheese?”
“No,” Bill Anders said instantly. “It’s made of American cheese.”
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.
- Engineers testing solar panel design for Roman Space Telescope
These are not the panels themselves, but engineering models for testing.
- Chinese pseudo-company Orien says it will launch its Gravity-1 rocket within days
The image at the link shows a launch from a sea platform. The pseudo-company has raised considerable investment capital. It has also promised this launch by the end of 2023 for months. Not much time left.
- Fifty-five years ago today Apollo 8 splashed down in the Pacific, completing humanity’s first journey to another world
After splashdown, as described in my book, Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8:
After about half an hour the sky had brightened enough for divers to hit the water and attach a flotation collar to the capsule. As everyone waited for the hatch to open, someone in a rescue helicopter radioed a question to these three first-time lunar explorers. “Hey, Apollo 8, is the moon made of green cheese?”
“No,” Bill Anders said instantly. “It’s made of American cheese.”
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
Mr. Zimmerman: Related to your Apollo 8 article. Why do you use the marxists’ word “humanity” instead of correct word “mankind” (the word also used by Apollo astronauts)?
Questioner: Because a good writer in English uses as much variety in words as possible, something that English allows with its gigantic vocabulary.
As for the using the word “mankind,” you might want to read the book’s full title, including the subtitle.
here we go….
Apollo 8 BBC Coverage
Burke, Moore, Lovell
(1 of 3 clips total)
https://archive.org/details/apollo-8-bbc-coverage