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November 13, 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.

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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.

 

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"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

12 comments

  • Steve Richter

    It will be interesting to see if SpaceX continues with the flawless execution and engineering progress on flight 6. Elon cannot be spending much time supervising Starship what with all the time on politics. Will SpaceX revert to being a normal rocket company without the customary Elon attention to detail?

  • M. Murcek

    The exoplanet announcements are pure garbage. Anyone wetting their pants over such “announcements” needs a life.

  • “Assembly of NASA’s next big telescope boondoggle, the Roman Space Telescope, is about to begin”

    Gonna have to invent some new numerals to express that budget.

  • sippin_bourbon

    Rumors in the wind:

    To be clear we are *far* from anything being settled, but based on what I’m hearing it seems at least 50-50 that NASA’s Space Launch System rocket will be canceled. Not Block 1B. Not Block 2. All of it. There are other ways to get Orion to the Moon.

    https://x.com/SciGuySpace/status/1856522880143745133 (Eric Berger)

  • sippin_bourbon

    I should have put quotes on that. That is the text of Eric Berger’s post , not my words.
    Mr Z feel free to fix, I do not want to misrepresent anything.

  • sippin_bourbon: Commenter Richard M. posted a link to Berger’s tweet yesterday. And as I said then: Remember, you heard it here first!

  • Mitch S.

    Meanwhile over at Blue Origin:
    (Seems the Washington Post isn’t the only Bezos business with woke employees suffering from Trump derangement syndrome)

    https://nypost.com/2024/11/13/us-news/corey-burke-hacked-father-to-death-after-trumps-election-night-victory/

  • Jeff Wright

    Yikes

  • wayne

    Mitch;

    To quote Jeff, “Yikes!”

    Like watching a car accident, I had to look.

    -Here’s where the media can be factual correct and completely lying, at the same time.

    Corey Lizette Burke–
    –allegedly premeditatedly hacked her father to death after an argument about turning off the lights in the house.
    While this incident did happen sequentially in time after election day, it’s completely unclear whether this had anything to do with DJT or who the Dad supported politically.

    (This sounds similar to the guy in Wisconsin who killed and chopped up his 2 parents, because they found out he was lying about going to college. Along with some lesbian-tranny weirdness thrown in for fun.)

    I would like to see a complete list of all the medications this girl was taking and her complete psych profile, because I’m 99% sure she has one, and it’s probably a tragically lengthy great read.
    For my money– she’s whacked on SSRI’s and has probably taken amphetamines since she was 12.

  • sippin_bourbon

    Mr Z,

    I believe you, but I find no such post.
    Berger also had an Ars Technica article on changes to space policy.

    Your site and browser cache do not play well for me, for some reason.
    Posted comments, even my own, do not show timely, or sometimes at all.

    I will look later from another device, and they appear. It is mildly annoying, but a small thing in the grand scheme.

    The topic of SLS cancellation at this point tho, is going to get interesting.

  • sippin_bourbon: As for my predictions about the dim future of ISS, posted before anyone else, go here:

    Freedom: What Trump’s election will mean for America’s space policy

    Richard M first linked to Berger’s tweet six days later.

  • sippin_bourbon

    Yes I read your article.
    It was very good.

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