The Infinite World

SpaceX successfully launched the 23rd mission of 2021, on 15 Sep 2021, Wednesday night. It was the first all non professional and non NASA private astronauts to space. They are Jared Issacman, Hayley Arceneaux, Sian Proctor and Chris Sembroski. Jared is the CEO of Shift4 Payments, Inc, who sponsored the 3 fellow astronauts. They will orbit earth every 90 minutes at an attitude of 575km, they will conduct scientific research designed to advance human health on earth and during future long duration space flight.

SpaceX 22nd mission of 2021 took placed at 23:55, 13 Sep 2021. It was the 29th Starlink launch with a stack of 51 Starlink v1.5 upgraded satellite with laser link capability. Each weighed 260kg, for a total payload weight of 13.26 tonnes. It was the 128th Falcon launch and the mission also achieved the 91st successful landing. The first stage B1061.10 became the 2nd boaster to have completed 10 launches and landing.

I completed a 22.23km run on 28 Aug 2021, Saturday, in a time of 2hr16min01sec. Average pace was 6:07 per km, not a fast time but one of my better long run in a long time.  I started out from my usual location via Yio Chu Kang Road and turned right onto Upper Thomson Road, then Sembawang Road till I turned right again onto Yishun Ave 1. Ran all the way till I came across Yishun Dam bridge and then turned right again onto Seletar Road till I couldn’t go any further, hit the expressway. I had not much choice, so I turned back and ran till I reached the reservoir park at Yishun Ave 1. I rested for 5 min and had a quick drink at the water point and did a slow jog back home via Lentor Ave. The strange thing is that I had been doing quite abit of short slow run lately and yet I seemed to be able to maintain a consistent time over a longer long like in this particular long long run.