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.
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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.
Readers!
Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black. Your support allows me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes -- for good or ill -- that are happening across America. Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Only now does it appear that Washington might finally recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
Your help allows me to do this kind of intelligent analysis. I take no advertising or sponsors, so my reporting isn't influenced by donations by established space or drug companies. Instead, I rely entirely on donations and subscriptions from my readers, which gives me the freedom to write what I think, unencumbered by outside influences.
You can support me either by giving a one-time contribution or a regular subscription. There are four ways of doing so:
1. Zelle: This is the only internet method that charges no fees. All you have to do is use the Zelle link at your internet bank and give my name and email address (zimmerman at nasw dot org). What you donate is what I get.
2. Patreon: Go to my website there and pick one of five monthly subscription amounts, or by making a one-time donation.
3. A Paypal Donation or subscription:
4. Donate by check, payable to Robert Zimmerman and mailed to
Behind The Black
c/o Robert Zimmerman
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Cortaro, AZ 85652
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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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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.