SpaceX successfully launches 4 astronauts into orbit
Capitalism in space: SpaceX early this morning successfully used its Falcon 9 rocket to launch its new capsule, Freedom, carrying four astronauts into orbit and heading to a docking with ISS this evening.
The first stage successfully landed on the drone ship in the Atlantic, completing its fourth flight.
The leaders in the 2022 launch race:
16 SpaceX
11 China
5 Russia
2 ULA
2 Rocket Lab
The U.S. now leads China 23 to 11 in the national rankings. In fact, at this moment the U.S. leads all other nations combined, 23 to 19.
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
Capitalism in space: SpaceX early this morning successfully used its Falcon 9 rocket to launch its new capsule, Freedom, carrying four astronauts into orbit and heading to a docking with ISS this evening.
The first stage successfully landed on the drone ship in the Atlantic, completing its fourth flight.
The leaders in the 2022 launch race:
16 SpaceX
11 China
5 Russia
2 ULA
2 Rocket Lab
The U.S. now leads China 23 to 11 in the national rankings. In fact, at this moment the U.S. leads all other nations combined, 23 to 19.
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
I watched from my front yard roughly 60 miles away. Saw a shooting star about when about a minute into the launch. Heard the rumble in person while stage two was firing on my phone screen.
Hey, Rogozin, want to borrow a broomstick? Close to a 5 to 1 ratio in launches
Technically SpaceX is almost leading the entire world 16 to 19. :)
He has to keep pushing…or like Ford and the Wrights, he will get shoved off to the side himself. There was a writer for a popular TV series who-to get ahead-did something I would have considered unethical. Not stealing…but a false claim. I could not live with myself being a repo man, IRS, man, bail bondsman. We have a lot of people who live off the misery of others. That Musk creates wealth is a blessing. Bezos exploits.