September 8, 2022 Quick space links
Courtesy of string Jay:
- Rocket Lab’s next launch set for September 14, 2022
The press kit [pdf] says nothing about any attempt to recover the first stage.
- Construction images of new launchpad at China’s coast Wenchang spaceport
This pad is intended to serve China’s pseudo-commercial rocket companies, thus isolating them from the government’s other higher security military and manned missions.
- Engineers begin fueling the next manned Soyuz capsule, set to launch September 21st
The mission will carry two Russians and one American, the American’s flight part of the new barter deal with Russia whereby each nation flies an astronaut on the other’s spacecraft.
- Russian design bureau submits its proposal for Venus lander, to launch in 2029
As reporter Anthony Zak correctly notes, the “budget and timeframe for the project look dimmer than ever.”
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
Courtesy of string Jay:
- Rocket Lab’s next launch set for September 14, 2022
- Construction images of new launchpad at China’s coast Wenchang spaceport
- Engineers begin fueling the next manned Soyuz capsule, set to launch September 21st
- Russian design bureau submits its proposal for Venus lander, to launch in 2029
The press kit [pdf] says nothing about any attempt to recover the first stage.
This pad is intended to serve China’s pseudo-commercial rocket companies, thus isolating them from the government’s other higher security military and manned missions.
The mission will carry two Russians and one American, the American’s flight part of the new barter deal with Russia whereby each nation flies an astronaut on the other’s spacecraft.
As reporter Anthony Zak correctly notes, the “budget and timeframe for the project look dimmer than ever.”
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
Not sure if you caught it, but the Rocket Lab release specifically says they will not attempt to capture.
sippin_bourbon: I looked through the press kit pdf but if it was there, I missed it.