November 4, 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.
- China reveals another copycat rocket of SpaceX’s Superheavy/Starship
This version is a government rocket called Long March 9. China has revised that design multiple times in the past, first to copy SLS, now to copy Starship/Superheavy.
- Rocket Lab’s next launch is set now for tomorrow, 5:30 am Eastern
Liftoff will be from New Zealand.
- On this day in 1957 the Soviet Union launched its second Sputnik satellite, carrying the dog Laika
The dog died in orbit, as they had made no arrangements for bring it back alive.
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.
- China reveals another copycat rocket of SpaceX’s Superheavy/Starship
This version is a government rocket called Long March 9. China has revised that design multiple times in the past, first to copy SLS, now to copy Starship/Superheavy.
- Rocket Lab’s next launch is set now for tomorrow, 5:30 am Eastern
Liftoff will be from New Zealand.
- On this day in 1957 the Soviet Union launched its second Sputnik satellite, carrying the dog Laika
The dog died in orbit, as they had made no arrangements for bring it back alive.
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
Re-entry video was wild!
Walking across the street shortly, to Vote Trump.