November 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.
- Another Chinese pseudo-company proposes another copycat New Shepard suborbital tourist spacecraft
There are a lot of these pseudo-companies popping up in China. Who knows how many are real.
- Cargo Dragon just launched will test using Draco thrusters to reboost ISS
This test will change the station’s telemetry almost not at all, but its goal is to eventually find multiple options for replacing this task presently done by Russian Progresses.
- Twin ESA satellites arrive in India for intergration into PSLV rocket
Launch is presentlhy scheduled for November 29, 2024.
- On this day in 2013 India launches its first interplanetary probe, the Mars Orbiter Mission or Mangalyaan
It operated in Mars orbit for about eight years.
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.
- Another Chinese pseudo-company proposes another copycat New Shepard suborbital tourist spacecraft
There are a lot of these pseudo-companies popping up in China. Who knows how many are real.
- Cargo Dragon just launched will test using Draco thrusters to reboost ISS
This test will change the station’s telemetry almost not at all, but its goal is to eventually find multiple options for replacing this task presently done by Russian Progresses.
- Twin ESA satellites arrive in India for intergration into PSLV rocket
Launch is presentlhy scheduled for November 29, 2024.
- On this day in 2013 India launches its first interplanetary probe, the Mars Orbiter Mission or Mangalyaan
It operated in Mars orbit for about eight years.
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
India launches an interplanetary “problem”?
Michael: Oy. Fixed. Thank you.
Man, the humidity must have dropped last night! Looked this morning and a half-bottle of Makers had just evaporated!
I am shocked that Trump won. Thought there was a lacking of enthusiasm during the last few weeks of the campaign. Even now with Trump reported as the victor, does not seem to be much excitement. Really hope that Elon stays away from Washington. Cutting government spending means actual people lose their jobs and the benefits they rely on. Not the job for an industrialist.
How Trump Won The Amish Vote in Pennsylvania
https://youtu.be/eNbDbaF9Hvc
8:01