December 21, 2023 Quick space links
Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay.
- Firefly scrubs launch due to weather, reschedules for December 22, 2023 at 9:18 am (Pacific)
The live stream can be found here, starting one hour before launch.
- Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus capsule to leave ISS on December 22, 2023 at 9:18 am (Pacific)
It will be unberthed and released by an astronaut in ISS using a robot arm, after which it will be de-orbited, burning up over the ocean.
- Flying over Pluto
A short animation created using the New Horizon images taken during its July 2015 fly-by.
- The launch of Apollo 8 at 7:51 am December 21, 1968
The footage is only 18 seconds long, covering the final countdown and liftoff. For a full history go here. Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders would go on to circle the Moon for 20 hours, read from the Old Testament on Christmas eve, and essentially win the 1960s space race for the free world.
Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay.
- Firefly scrubs launch due to weather, reschedules for December 22, 2023 at 9:18 am (Pacific)
The live stream can be found here, starting one hour before launch.
- Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus capsule to leave ISS on December 22, 2023 at 9:18 am (Pacific)
It will be unberthed and released by an astronaut in ISS using a robot arm, after which it will be de-orbited, burning up over the ocean.
- Flying over Pluto
A short animation created using the New Horizon images taken during its July 2015 fly-by.
- The launch of Apollo 8 at 7:51 am December 21, 1968
The footage is only 18 seconds long, covering the final countdown and liftoff. For a full history go here. Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders would go on to circle the Moon for 20 hours, read from the Old Testament on Christmas eve, and essentially win the 1960s space race for the free world.