If you’ve never seen a SpaceX rocket take off, now is the time.
Hobbes describes life as “nasty, brutish, and short”.
Keltner believes evolution has given Homo sapiens emotions like gratitude, joy, amusement, and compassion.
Mark Leviton Thomas [Sun Magazine – September]
Jojo was a man
who thought he was a loner
But he knew it couldn’t last.
Jojo left his home in Tucson, Arizona
For some California grass.
Get back, get back,
Get back to where you once belonged.
Get back, get back,
Get back to where you once belonged.
Get back, Jojo.
“Is Tucson in Arizona?” John checks with Paul as The Beatles write “Get Back” – New Yorker cultural-comment
What’s at LunarData.com?
Newyorker.com attention-people-of-earth
Note : make sure you read down to the part about alien sex.
Nothing unusual this morning – unlike last month when the shirtless urban wanderer, Kiltman, appeared here.
Or more recently when the bookstore featured a new cat.
Thousands of operations are performed before the rocket can leave the launch pad, and dozens of engineering cameras track these operations.
This is also a good preview of NASA’s super heavy-lift launch vehicle, the Space Launch System (SLS), mankind’s new vehicle for the next trip to the Moon.
The first flight of Artemis and the full Orion spacecraft is scheduled to launch on SEP 05.
Update: The launch date was actually Wednesday, November 16, 2022 at 6:47 AM (UTC).
If the destination is forevermore, then the journey there requires a worldview where enjoyment is only one of many heavenly experiences. The hellish ones of course get worse & worse.
more to be here posted soon – Desert Adventure as a Slide Show
Eastern Sierra in the far distance. Back in 2007, M & I hiked all day in the scorching heat trying to reach Papoose Flat, where those little sharp peaks are in the distance (left of center). Had to turn around because the sun was beginning to set. Made it back to the car just in time before our water ran out.
Korea Aerospace Research Institute of South Korea is exploring the moon with Danuri.
This Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter is tasked with surveying lunar resources such as water ice, uranium, helium-3, silicon, and aluminium, and will produce a topographic map to help select future lunar landing sites.
Mission is scheduled to be launched today, 4 August 2022, on a Falcon 9 launch vehicle.
rocketlaunch.live <- look for video from 2022