February 20, 2023 Quick space links
Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay.
- Firefly touts its growing presence in Texas
The tweet links to an article describing the general growth of Texas’s space industry, much of it coming from companies fleeing California’s Stalinist government regulations.
- At press conference about the next Chinese manned mission, a government official reminded reporters that everything “must be censored before release.”
It is kind of funny that this official felt he needed to do this, since every one of those “journalists” knows he or she is really employed by the government and knows everything they write must serve that government. Why underline China’s authoritarian rule?
- Russian officials confirm that the launch of an unmanned Soyuz to ISS will take place on February 23rd
There had been some conflicting reports about the exact launch date. This announcement ends that confusion.
- All the Starlink satellites presently in orbit
The tweet shows a short video quickly illustrating the present state of the constellation. It almost literally covers the Earth.
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.
- Firefly touts its growing presence in Texas
The tweet links to an article describing the general growth of Texas’s space industry, much of it coming from companies fleeing California’s Stalinist government regulations.
- At press conference about the next Chinese manned mission, a government official reminded reporters that everything “must be censored before release.”
It is kind of funny that this official felt he needed to do this, since every one of those “journalists” knows he or she is really employed by the government and knows everything they write must serve that government. Why underline China’s authoritarian rule?
- Russian officials confirm that the launch of an unmanned Soyuz to ISS will take place on February 23rd
There had been some conflicting reports about the exact launch date. This announcement ends that confusion.
- All the Starlink satellites presently in orbit
The tweet shows a short video quickly illustrating the present state of the constellation. It almost literally covers the Earth.
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
The full website for the Starlink sats is: https://satellitemap.space/
Hey! That’s Sherwin-Williams shtick!
“ much of it coming from companies fleeing California’s Stalinist government regulations.”
100% chance that big money from the usual suspects will push Newsom on the national stage. 2024 and the left’s grip on the narrative will far exceed the money invested in 2020 and Newsom will claim that he wasn’t part of the Biden debacle. When facing failure of results, the left has always claimed that the failure is due to not fully embracing the socialist/communist agenda. and this time they have Biden as the scapegoat.