Monthly Archives: December 2008

According to the SpaceX website: Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 Falcon 9 is now fully integrated at the Cape! Today we mated the 5.2 m payload fairing to the Falcon 9 first stage (see above photo). This was the final step … Continue reading →

According to columnist Caroline Glick at the Jerusalem Post: On Tuesday, Hamas legislators marked the Christmas season by passing a Shari’a criminal code for the Palestinian Authority. Among other things, it legalizes crucifixion. Hamas’s endorsement of nailing enemies of Islam … Continue reading →

There are people protesting against the Israeli assault on Gaza. Odd. I don’t recall any protests being staged during all the weeks before when Hamas was shooting hundreds of rockets and morters at Israel. I don’t recall any hurried meetings … Continue reading →

Zechariah 4:10 reads: Who despises the day of small things? Men will rejoice when they see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. The “day of small things” refers to times when little progress is apparent for God’s people. … Continue reading →

Another SpaceX press release: F9/Dragon Will Replace the Cargo Transport Function of the Space Shuttle after 2010 Hawthorne, CA – December 23, 2008 – NASA today announced its selection of the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle and Dragon spacecraft for … Continue reading →

From a SpaceX Press Release: Monday, December 22nd, 2008 Yesterday we lifted the first stage off the shipping truck and lowered it onto the integration assemblies. With all of the F9 hardware currently at or on its way to the … Continue reading →

Forty years ago this week three men became the first human beings to travel to the moon. The astronauts of Apollo 8, James Lovell, Frank Borman, and Bill Anders, did not land on the moon: they merely orbited it ten … Continue reading →

MSNBC reports: A carrier aircraft designed to be the first stage of a commercial spaceline system made its maiden test flight Sunday at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California. Designed by Scaled Composites, the huge and unique White … Continue reading →

From a SpaceX press release that I got today. It looks as if they are on track for the first demonstration flight of a Falcon 9 early in the new year: Hawthorne, CA – December 18, 2008 – Space Exploration … Continue reading →

The composer Ludwig van Beethoven was born December 16, 1770 in Bonn, Germany and moved to Austria in his 20s.