March 18, 2025 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.
- China touts another new rocket doing tower tests
No information other than two pictures.
- Update on the testing status of Sierra Nevada’s first Dream Chaser cargo shuttle, Tenacity
Includes almost no new information. Suggests the first launch will occur “this year,” which seems remarkable vague considering previously they thought they would launch last spring.
- On this day in 1965 Russian Alexei Leonov became the first person to do a spacewalk
The spacewalk had been quickly improvised to beat the planned American spacewalk during its Gemini program, and so the spacesuit ballooned out so much during the walk Leonov initially could not get back through the hatch. He had to literally dump some of his own air to shrink the suit enough to squeeze back in.
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.
- China touts another new rocket doing tower tests
No information other than two pictures.
- Update on the testing status of Sierra Nevada’s first Dream Chaser cargo shuttle, Tenacity
Includes almost no new information. Suggests the first launch will occur “this year,” which seems remarkable vague considering previously they thought they would launch last spring.
- On this day in 1965 Russian Alexei Leonov became the first person to do a spacewalk
The spacewalk had been quickly improvised to beat the planned American spacewalk during its Gemini program, and so the spacesuit ballooned out so much during the walk Leonov initially could not get back through the hatch. He had to literally dump some of his own air to shrink the suit enough to squeeze back in.