25.11 - Delicious Dee's Task: Space X

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25.11 - Delicious Dee's Task: Space X
On May 30th, thousands of people in the US gathered to watch the launch of Dragon Crew Demo-2 (Endeavor) from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and on the 31st of May to watch it dock with the International Space Station. It marks the first time since 2011 that the US has launches an manned orbital space flight since 2011 and the first time it's been operated by a commercial provider

In honor of this historic occasion, you will read 2 books from different options. Since this is the first time since 2011, this type of mission has been accomplished, AT LEAST one of your books must have been published prior to 2011.

1. Partnership
This launch was a partnership between a Commerical Provider (established by Elon Musk in 2002) and NASA.

Read a book that is written by 2 or more authors. Anthologies/short stories DO NOT work for this task. 2 Authors writing under a single name work, but you must provide a reference to establish that the single name refers to two or more authors.

2. The Astronauts
Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken were selected in 2018 to be the astronauts for this mission. Read a single author book where the author's name is either DOUGLAS, DOUG, ROBERT, BOB - names may appear in any position, but must match exactly.

3. Stowaway
About 6 minutes into the flight, viewers got a peek at a stowaway onboard. Both Bob and Doug have sons who are obsessed with Dinosaurs - and after taking a vote - they took Tremor the Apatosaurus with them on the trip. He was used as the zero g indicator.

Read a single author book where the author's initials (including middle initial) can be found in APATOSAURUS.

4. Space
Watching this occur has made me want to read more about the initial space race. You can find out more about the Space Race here: The Space Race

Read a NONFICTION book about the Space Race. This listopia may help: Space Race Books

[Dee]

Blast off

[Dee]

Fizzled Out

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This thread is now open!

[Bea]

"2 Authors writing under a single name work, but you must provide a reference to establish that the single name refers to one author."

I am assuming you meant more than one author.

So I am planning to read a book by Jefferson Bass, who is actually 2 people writing under one name. I think you are asking me to provide a reference to each of the 2 people, correct?

[Trish]

I'm assuming the same for James S.A. Corey. The author picture is of both of them, although the link proving the pseudonym is external: http://www.danielabraham.com/about-ja...

[SRC Moderator, Moderator]

Bea wrote: ""2 Authors writing under a single name work, but you must provide a reference to establish that the single name refers to one author."

I am assuming you meant more than one author.

So I am planni..."

Thanks for pointing out the problem, Bea - I've fixed it.

[Dee]

@Bea - thanks for pointing out issue - yes i was thinking Jefferson Bass/Illona Andrews when i wrote that task as being acceptable

@Trish - just make sure to include that link in your posting since its not in the GR bio

[Trish]

Cheers, Dee.

[Ed]

For Option 1....would The Holy Bible: English Standard Version work? GR indicates the author is "Anonymous" but it is general knowledge that the Bible is composed of many different "books" with different authors...such as Paul and Luke...as well as "books" that are truly anonymous.

[Dee]

Ed wrote: "For Option 1....would The Holy Bible: English Standard Version work? GR indicates the author is "Anonymous" but it is general knowledge that the Bible is composed of many different "..."

Let me confer with the mods and get back to you

[Dee]

Ed wrote: "For Option 1....would The Holy Bible: English Standard Version work? GR indicates the author is "Anonymous" but it is general knowledge that the Bible is composed of many different "..."

talked to Sandy and i'm going to have to say no - while i understand your logic - unfortunately the task says this - 2 Authors writing under a single name work, but you must provide a reference to establish that the single name refers to two or more authors and general knowledge wouldn't really apply.

hope you can use it somewhere else

[Kim]

Will this work for option 4?

Apollo 13

Thank you.

[Dee]

Kim wrote: "Will this work for option 4?

Apollo 13

Thank you."

According to this link - yes Apollo 13 was part of the overall space race - so yes it works

https://www.history.com/topics/cold-w...