Endeavour successfully launches four astronauts to ISS
Capitalism in space: SpaceX’s Endeavour capsule early this morning successfully launched four astronauts to ISS,
Both Endeavour and the Falcon 9 first stage had flown once previously. The first stage landed successfully on the drone ship in the Atlantic.
The leaders in the 2021 launch race:
11 SpaceX
8 China
6 Russia
2 Rocket Lab
The U.S. now leads China 15 to 8 in the national rankings.
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Capitalism in space: SpaceX’s Endeavour capsule early this morning successfully launched four astronauts to ISS,
Both Endeavour and the Falcon 9 first stage had flown once previously. The first stage landed successfully on the drone ship in the Atlantic.
The leaders in the 2021 launch race:
11 SpaceX
8 China
6 Russia
2 Rocket Lab
The U.S. now leads China 15 to 8 in the national rankings.
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
why is there never a video shot from the landing pad in the ocean, showing the 1st stage booster, first as a dot in the sky, coming closer and closer until touchdown?
Here is a 360 degree view of a landing on a drone ship; look up, you can see it as a dot and all the way down…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDK5TF2BOhQ
R.P. – that is excellent!. Thanks for sharing.
Hey, I don’t know if this is bull or not as it comes from the Sun but is posted elsewhere. Has anyone heard of this UFO or near collision?”
https://www.the-sun.com/news/2770635/spacex-starship-near-miss-ufo-astronauts-prepare-crash/
A small milestone – pretty sure this is the first time since the Shuttle that more than three astronauts have been launched at once in the same vehicle.
Andi: By jove, I think you are correct. I missed this entirely but it is definitely true.
Highlights nicely the superior capabilities of SpaceX’s Dragon capsule design.