Space Saturday
I saw several space related items today:
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/09/leaving-behind-its-crew-starliner-departs-space-station-and-returns-to-earth/
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| As Thurston Howell might have said: "Good Heavens ! X-rays !" (a screen cap from a NASA IR video) |
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| that sand really is white |
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/09/boeings-problem-plagued-starliner-spacecraft-comes-back-to-earth-tonight/
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/09/new-glenns-debut-will-slip-into-november-as-nasa-decides-to-not-fuel-escapade/
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/09/with-nasas-plan-faltering-china-knows-it-can-be-first-with-mars-sample-return/
and I usually watch Marcus House on Saturday morning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kGk4OmNy50
Very glad that Starliner made it back OK but I still think that the decision to fly home empty was the correct one. BTW Marcus House usually goes into excruciating detail on the doings of Spacex each week but I suspect that that is due in large part to all the video available each week that covers Spacex.
Once in a while it is interesting to see something new and non-Spacex like the ESA ship delivering a module for Artemis - the ship has sails ! Very cool, although I suspect that a huge ship like that isn't making a trip just to deliver a module to NASA in FL, they must also be bringing rockets down to the ESA launch site in Guiana.
Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm
