Russia successfully launches Progress with new docking hub for ISS
Russia today successfully launched a new Progress freighter carrying Prichal, a new docking hub for the Russian half of ISS.
If all goes as planned, Prichal will dock to Nauka in two days.
The leaders in the 2021 launch race:
43 China
26 SpaceX
19 Russia
5 Europe (Arianespace)
China still leads the U.S. 43 to 41 in the national rankings. This launch was the 111th successful launch in 2021, which tied the number from 2018 that had been the highest since the 1990s.
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Russia today successfully launched a new Progress freighter carrying Prichal, a new docking hub for the Russian half of ISS.
If all goes as planned, Prichal will dock to Nauka in two days.
The leaders in the 2021 launch race:
43 China
26 SpaceX
19 Russia
5 Europe (Arianespace)
China still leads the U.S. 43 to 41 in the national rankings. This launch was the 111th successful launch in 2021, which tied the number from 2018 that had been the highest since the 1990s.
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 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
Prichal is the UM module and is going to be very cool! A Sphere with 6 docking ports. This will be the new node to which all future Russian modules will attach.
When the ISS is finally discarded, the Russians intend to take Nauka, Prichal and everything they attach after as the core of their next space station.
Odd, they have a plan. NASA? Bueller?
Looks like the Emperor Dalek.
geoffc wrote: “Odd, they have a plan. NASA? Bueller?”
NASA’s plan is to lease time aboard future commercial space stations.
-and docked