February 5, 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.
- Axiom’s commercial passenger flight to ISS targeting an undocking and return to Earth tomorrow.
Undocking will be at 9:05 am (Eastern), depending on weather conditions at the splashdown point.
- Chinese pseudo-company planning G60 satellite constellation competitive with Starlink raises about $1 billion
Clearly Chinese investors expect to make money on this constellation. They of course must hope the communists don’t decide to confisicate it at any point.
- Spaceport America in New Mexico tries to convince everyone to launch rockets from its inland location
A dumb article and a dumb idea. No one is going to approve orbital launches from an inland spaceport until rockets become a lot more reliable landing their first stages.
- Oleg Kononenko sets new record for the most time spent, exceeding 878 days over five flights
In June he will exceed 1000 days.
- Teasing details about India’s proposed space station
First module will fly uninhabited and will be used to practice rendezvous and docking technologies.
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.
- Axiom’s commercial passenger flight to ISS targeting an undocking and return to Earth tomorrow.
Undocking will be at 9:05 am (Eastern), depending on weather conditions at the splashdown point.
- Chinese pseudo-company planning G60 satellite constellation competitive with Starlink raises about $1 billion
Clearly Chinese investors expect to make money on this constellation. They of course must hope the communists don’t decide to confisicate it at any point.
- Spaceport America in New Mexico tries to convince everyone to launch rockets from its inland location
A dumb article and a dumb idea. No one is going to approve orbital launches from an inland spaceport until rockets become a lot more reliable landing their first stages.
- Oleg Kononenko sets new record for the most time spent, exceeding 878 days over five flights
In June he will exceed 1000 days.
- Teasing details about India’s proposed space station
First module will fly uninhabited and will be used to practice rendezvous and docking technologies.
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
Apollo 13. 11 was in the summer.
Actually Apollo *14*
Robert and Morgan: Of course. I have fixed the typo. Thank you.
some very good film…
Apollo 14 Launch
https://youtu.be/lVbHRrxG6Yk
9:47
Then there’s the Apollo 14 lunar liftoff (shot looking out from within the lunar module) – which is the only time the flag on the surface can be seen to wave in the wind! The ascending lunar module’s rocket blast wind, that is…
Wayne:
A little disappointed there wasn’t footage of the first stage landin . . . oh, wait.
Thanks! That stuff never gets old.
Space Port America is a joke.
A joke on the citizens of that state.
The only people who are ever going to profit from it are the construction companies who build it.
It might make a nice airport but launching rockets never. The very same environmental groups will stop them just like they are trying to stop Musk.
Heck some people want to shut down regular airports because to many birds get killed. They do not understand that its the airports open spaces that attract them.