The launch of two satellites to study the Van Allen radiation belts has been delayed again, this time due to weather.
The launch of two satellites to study the Van Allen radiation belts has been delayed again, this time due to weather.
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The launch of two satellites to study the Van Allen radiation belts has been delayed again, this time due to weather.
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
Just got back from Cocoa Beach (just down the road from the Cape) for some beach fun & boogie boarding, left early because of weather from TS Isaac. I planned it for this past week to coincide with the Atlas V launch & got up early both Fri & Sat & was sorely disappointed it didn’t go. The beaches all up & down the area were full of people for the launch – really surprised me to see so many folks willing to get up well before dawn for a non-manned launch ! This tells me interest & support for the space program are still very high. Everyone I talked to was very upset with this Admin’s obvious “lack of interest” (to put it mildly) in spaceflight…
Chris,
See my earlier post: If you schedule a launch, they will come.
Wow – thanks for that, Bob – I must’ve missed that article on the shuttle launch. I’m so sorry I was never in or near FL when a shuttle (or any manned) launch took place. As an avid follower & supporter of the Space Program, I should’ve made a special trip at some point. I think we got a bit jaded by the regularity of manned spaceflight & how sort of “routine” it seemed & kind of assumed there’d always be another launch to catch later. Now that there are NO manned flights to look forward to, I’m suddenly acutely aware of what I’ve missed. But with the recent success of SpaceX’s Falcon/Dragon & the coming launch of Orion & other COTS program vehicles, maybe we’ll have a crewed launch to look forward to in the not-too-distant future…
Of course, living fairly far from KSC, if I make the trip & the launch is posponed (as just happened with the Atlas V launch), there’s not much opportunity to return for the reschedule. Anyway, thanks again for this – proves that YES, there really is still a LOT of support for Space exploration…