December 30, 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.
- Rocket startup Arca unveils clothing fashion line, “made with materials used to fabricate rockets and spacecraft”
The company was destroyed in 2018 when its CEO was twice arrested (though cleared), first by state officials and then by Homeland Security. At the time it was testing an aerospike engine with prospects for launch soon. All that vanished after his persecution by government officials. It appears whoever runs the company now is trying to earn revenue from the remaining assets.
- Chinese pseudo-company CosmicLeap completes testing of its “chopstick” launch tower
As Jay notes, “Easy to build the tower, where is the rocket?”
- On this day in 1930 Robert Goddard completed his first rocket flight in Roswell, New Mexico
He had shifted operations there when he scaled up operations. The southwest gave him better weather and plenty of room for testing.
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.
- Rocket startup Arca unveils clothing fashion line, “made with materials used to fabricate rockets and spacecraft”
The company was destroyed in 2018 when its CEO was twice arrested (though cleared), first by state officials and then by Homeland Security. At the time it was testing an aerospike engine with prospects for launch soon. All that vanished after his persecution by government officials. It appears whoever runs the company now is trying to earn revenue from the remaining assets.
- Chinese pseudo-company CosmicLeap completes testing of its “chopstick” launch tower
As Jay notes, “Easy to build the tower, where is the rocket?”
- On this day in 1930 Robert Goddard completed his first rocket flight in Roswell, New Mexico
He had shifted operations there when he scaled up operations. The southwest gave him better weather and plenty of room for testing.
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
Well, just a heads-up: don’t read up on Goddard expecting to learn about the secrets of a genius experimentalist. He could have learned a lot from the Wright brothers, as could many others!
And don’t get me started on Amelia Earhart!