January 16, 2024 Quick space links
Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay, who returns after his work took him away from us last week.
- Sierra Space releases video of test-to-failure of its full scale inflatible space station module
The module will be used on the Orbital Reef station the company is building in partnership with Blue Origin.
- Chinese engineers complete final launch rehearsal for launch of its next Tianzhou cargo freighter to Tiangong-3 station
The launch is presently scheduled for January 17, 2024 at 3:27 am (Eastern). It will use a fast 3-hour rendezvous and docking plan for the first time.
- Australian activists protest proposed commercial spaceport
They claim rockets pose a threat to wildlife, even though we now have almost three-quarters of a century of evidence that they do exactly the opposite, help wildlife. Just shows us that leftists are proudly ignorant, and are irrationally against everything.
- Voyager Space and Airbus finalize their partnership to build private the Starlab space station
The partnership also includes Northrop Grumman, and is one of three private stations being built in partnership with NASA.
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, who returns after his work took him away from us last week.
- Sierra Space releases video of test-to-failure of its full scale inflatible space station module
The module will be used on the Orbital Reef station the company is building in partnership with Blue Origin.
- Chinese engineers complete final launch rehearsal for launch of its next Tianzhou cargo freighter to Tiangong-3 station
The launch is presently scheduled for January 17, 2024 at 3:27 am (Eastern). It will use a fast 3-hour rendezvous and docking plan for the first time.
- Australian activists protest proposed commercial spaceport
They claim rockets pose a threat to wildlife, even though we now have almost three-quarters of a century of evidence that they do exactly the opposite, help wildlife. Just shows us that leftists are proudly ignorant, and are irrationally against everything.
- Voyager Space and Airbus finalize their partnership to build private the Starlab space station
The partnership also includes Northrop Grumman, and is one of three private stations being built in partnership with NASA.
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
I think this is legit. Searched the site and couldn’t find a reference.
A galaxy with no visible stars.
https://www.space.com/dark-primordial-galaxy-no-stars-green-bank-observatory
The FAA is getting serious about improving their quality.
“FAA’s diversity push includes focus on hiring people with ‘severe intellectual’ and ‘psychiatric’ disabilities”
“Targeted disabilities are those disabilities that the Federal government, as a matter of policy, has identified for special emphasis in recruitment and hiring,” the FAA’s website states. “They include hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism.”
https://www.foxnews.com/us/faas-diversity-push-includes-focus-hiring-people-severe-intellectual-psychiatric-disabilities