This is amazing – they are getting so close to having this amazing vehicle working. Maybe SpaceX will be on the Moon before the planned NASA mission for 2024? OK, rapid unplanned disassembly at the end, but so nearly there. The manoeuvre from horizontal flight to vertical for landing is quite a shock!
Category: Space
Apollo 11 on the way home!

Lunar Landing

Lunar Orbit Insertion

Partial lunar eclipse

Liftoff!

In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission – here’s my Saturn V model appropriately posed! Continue reading
Ticket to ride :-)
Yay! It will be fun to follow this even if I can’t actually go. See
Apollo 11 anniversary – 50 years

I noticed the new Radio Times in Margie’s this morning – had to buy it with a cover like that! Continue reading
Falcon Heavy boosters landing
Dragon arrives at ISS

It was great today to see the SpaceX Crew Dragon arriving at the International Space Station today (complete with crew dummy “Ripley”). Fantastic to see high resolution images in real time – for those of us who watched low res video of the Apollo program it looks more like a sci-fi movie!