October 5, 2022 Quick space links
Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay, who reads Twitter so I don’t have to.
- The fixes needed to get Russia’s Luna-25 ready for launch in the summer of 2023
Jay says, “I bet you a Coke it will not launch on that date.” I wouldn’t take that bet if I were you.
- China names its new sea launch platform HAIFA
My question: Why did they name it after an Israeli city?
- The UK and South Korea join U.S. anti-satellite missile test ban coalition
They join Canada, Germany, Japan, and New Zealand, making seven total, including the U.S.
- ESA unveils latest design of its ESPRIT refueling module for Lunar Gateway
According to Anatoly Zak, this is a major redesign.
- Iran releases close-up of suborbital rocket that launched what it claims was a test of a rocket upper kick stage subbed Saman
Might be true. Might not. Nothing that comes from Iran’s state-run press can be trusted.
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, who reads Twitter so I don’t have to.
- The fixes needed to get Russia’s Luna-25 ready for launch in the summer of 2023
Jay says, “I bet you a Coke it will not launch on that date.” I wouldn’t take that bet if I were you.
- China names its new sea launch platform HAIFA
My question: Why did they name it after an Israeli city?
- The UK and South Korea join U.S. anti-satellite missile test ban coalition
They join Canada, Germany, Japan, and New Zealand, making seven total, including the U.S.
- ESA unveils latest design of its ESPRIT refueling module for Lunar Gateway
According to Anatoly Zak, this is a major redesign.
- Iran releases close-up of suborbital rocket that launched what it claims was a test of a rocket upper kick stage subbed Saman
Might be true. Might not. Nothing that comes from Iran’s state-run press can be trusted.
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
Someone translated Haifa from Chinese to English and it means “Sea Launch”.