May 28, 2025 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 Lab acquires Geost, a payload provider for the military
The company continues to diversify across the entire commercial space landscape.
- Sierra Space wins NASA contract to study using its LIFE inflatable modules on the Moon
The modules were originally conceived to fly on Blue Origin’s Orbital Reef commercial space station. NASA now wants to see if they can be adapted for planetary colonies.
- Starship in orbit yesterday, as photographed from Namibia in Africa
As noted at the link, a substantial tail had already formed as the spacecraft dropped into the atmosphere uncontrolled.
- This week in 2012 the first SpaceX cargo Dragon was berthed at ISS
And at that moment capitalism, freedom, and competition took over.
- On this day in 2002 NASA announced that Mars Odyssey had discovered enormous amounts of near surface ice on Mars
And yet, almost a quarter of a century later news organizations (excluding Behind the Black) still think Mars lacks water and is nothing but a dry desert.
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 Lab acquires Geost, a payload provider for the military
The company continues to diversify across the entire commercial space landscape.
- Sierra Space wins NASA contract to study using its LIFE inflatable modules on the Moon
The modules were originally conceived to fly on Blue Origin’s Orbital Reef commercial space station. NASA now wants to see if they can be adapted for planetary colonies.
- Starship in orbit yesterday, as photographed from Namibia in Africa
As noted at the link, a substantial tail had already formed as the spacecraft dropped into the atmosphere uncontrolled.
- This week in 2012 the first SpaceX cargo Dragon was berthed at ISS
And at that moment capitalism, freedom, and competition took over.
- On this day in 2002 NASA announced that Mars Odyssey had discovered enormous amounts of near surface ice on Mars
And yet, almost a quarter of a century later news organizations (excluding Behind the Black) still think Mars lacks water and is nothing but a dry desert.
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
Nice picture of Elon’s Comet
“Rubio Announces Aggressive Crackdown on Every Chinese Student in the U.S.”
“Amid allegations that Chinese students have infiltrated at least one American university to act as spies, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said visas for Chinese students are being revoked.”
“’Under President Trump’s leadership, the U.S. State Department will work with the Department of Homeland Security to aggressively revoke visas for Chinese students, including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields,’ Rubio said in a statement posted to the State Department’s website.”
“’China exploited our visa system for decades to advance the priorities of the Communist Party,’ the official said.”
“They sent students to our best colleges and research universities. Many of these so called guests in our country arrived with one purpose — to steal our intellectual property on Beijing’s behalf.”
https://www.westernjournal.com/marco-rubio-announces-aggressive-crackdown-every-chinese-student-us/
The horses are out of the barn, Marco…you and the NAFTAs left the doors wide open for decades.
Fire. Ready. Aim.
Rubio has only held federal office since 2011. Before that, he was a FL state legislator. NAFTA was a Bill Clinton initiative from the early 1990s. And NAFTA has nothing to do with Chinese students swarming into the U.S. – or with their being shown the door now.