October 1, 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.
- Orbital tug startup Momentus faces delisting from Nasdaq stock exchange
The share value has generally been below a dollar, thus failing to meet Nasdaq’s requirements. The company has had both cash shortage and technical issues, hindering its success.
- NASA reissues its request for proposals for using its Janus planetary probes
The probes, built and ready for launch, lost their target when the launch to carry them got delayed. NASA had issued this request but then retracted it “for corrections.” The reissued request includes less technical details, likely to give bidders more flexibility.
- On this day in 1958 the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (N.A.C.A. and pronounced by saying each letter) officially became the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA, prounced like a word).
I have no idea why people changed how they spoke the acronyms.
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.
- Orbital tug startup Momentus faces delisting from Nasdaq stock exchange
The share value has generally been below a dollar, thus failing to meet Nasdaq’s requirements. The company has had both cash shortage and technical issues, hindering its success.
- NASA reissues its request for proposals for using its Janus planetary probes
The probes, built and ready for launch, lost their target when the launch to carry them got delayed. NASA had issued this request but then retracted it “for corrections.” The reissued request includes less technical details, likely to give bidders more flexibility.
- On this day in 1958 the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (N.A.C.A. and pronounced by saying each letter) officially became the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA, prounced like a word).
I have no idea why people changed how they spoke the acronyms.
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
Gemin-eye vs. Gemin-ee? Most NASA people at the time said Gemin-ee, or so I’ve read.
Patrick Underwood: I lived through the 1960s. I never heard anyone ever say “Gemin-ee.” We would have giggled at someone who did.
It was always Gemin-eye. Where this other pronounciation came from I have no idea.
I too lived through the 60s and remember hearing “Gemin-ee” a lot. Especially when talking about a certain cartoon cricket…
https://youtu.be/aafpos35u-s
3:08 min
8^)
Always heard it as Gemin-eye.
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This would be the killer Michael Byrd.
I wasn’t alive during the 1960’s, but I have the same impression that it was overwhelmingly pronounced “Gemin-EYE” at the time.
That’s why I was a little thrown off when watching FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON (1998), where I kept hearing the actors say it as “Gemin-EEE.”
For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGWceygnvgQ
So at first, I thought this was a rare dropping of the ball on historical accuracy by the series. But on looking further, I discovered that staff of the Manned Spacecraft Center, including the astronauts, tended to pronounce the name “Gemin-EEE.” Listening to some mission audio files, I find that yeah, there seems to be something to it.
Interestingly, there was an actual social media scrum over this very same thing happening in FIRST MAN (2018). The result was a New York Times article digging into the question. And they found that, yes, it was a MSC insider thing, but they added some more details to the story. Not all NASA centers used that pronunciation – and, obviously, neither did most of the public or the press!
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/17/movies/first-man-gemini-nasa.html#:~:text=On%20Tuesday%2C%20Bob%20Jacobs%2C%20a,as%20someone%20in%20the%20know.
an October 12 launch of flight 5??
This twitter post says a notice to mariners has been issued for that date by the Coast Guard. “… on Oct 12 rocket launching operations are scheduled to take place near Boca Chica, TX. Backup dates from Oct 13 to 17. …”
https://twitter.com/dpoddolphinpro/status/1841513791248359466
Steve Richter: Thank you. I have now posted this link on the main page, and given you a hat tip.