September 17, 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.
- Space Perspective completes first test flight of its Neptune balloon capsule
This test flight proved out the capsule’s engineering, and will eventually be followed by tourist balloon flights to about 20 miles altitude.
- Using Hubble, astronomers identify more supermassive black holes in the early universe that previously reported
The result comes from repeated observations of the very distant galaxies in the Hubble Ultra-Deep field, and spotting the changes.
- First paper published outlining preliminary data obtained from Chang’e-6 lunar samples from the far side of the Moon
You can read the paper here [pdf].
- On this day in 1976 the cast of the original Star Trek welcomed the roll-out of the shuttle engineering test vehicle Enterprise, named by popular demand after the spacehip in the TV series.
Enterprise never flew in space, but was used to test the shuttle’s design for gliding unpowered to a runway landing.
- On this day in 1996 the shuttle Atlantis lifted off for the fourth shuttle mission to dock with Russia’s Mir space station
The shuttle brought Shannon Lucid back from space, completing her then 188-day mission that was then a record for an American and a woman.
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.
- Space Perspective completes first test flight of its Neptune balloon capsule
This test flight proved out the capsule’s engineering, and will eventually be followed by tourist balloon flights to about 20 miles altitude.
- Using Hubble, astronomers identify more supermassive black holes in the early universe that previously reported
The result comes from repeated observations of the very distant galaxies in the Hubble Ultra-Deep field, and spotting the changes.
- First paper published outlining preliminary data obtained from Chang’e-6 lunar samples from the far side of the Moon
You can read the paper here [pdf].
- On this day in 1976 the cast of the original Star Trek welcomed the roll-out of the shuttle engineering test vehicle Enterprise, named by popular demand after the spacehip in the TV series.
Enterprise never flew in space, but was used to test the shuttle’s design for gliding unpowered to a runway landing.
- On this day in 1996 the shuttle Atlantis lifted off for the fourth shuttle mission to dock with Russia’s Mir space station
The shuttle brought Shannon Lucid back from space, completing her then 188-day mission that was then a record for an American and a woman.
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
Mike Griffin was on RL’s board?!? Wow. They’ll probably go faster now. :)
He encouraged Musk to build his own rockets
Errata. “Starhip in the TV series”
MERIK: He commands not just a spaceship, Proconsul, but a starship. A very special vessel and crew. I tried for such a command.
ST:TOG “Bread and Circuses” Desilu 1968