August 1, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
I really enjoy listening to these podcasts. They, along with The Space Show, make my drive to work a lot more palatable. One bit of speculation that I have to disagree on, Bob, is when you said there will come a time when SpaceX will have old used up boosters for sale for cheap. Gwynne Shotwell said on The Space Show they wouldn’t sell boosters, they only sell a service.
That makes sense to me because SpaceX doesn’t want their proprietary information getting out, and to that end, they only patent the technology that is visible on the outside of the rockets/spacecraft. The justification for this strategy is if you get a patent then it’s easily accessible information and the enforceability of said patents against state actors (China, Russia) is questionable at best.
Anthony Domanico: I should emphasize that when I was talking about a future “used rocket market” I wasn’t really specifically talking about SpaceX. I might have said so, but I really didn’t mean it that way. Once all rockets become reusable vehicles (which is going to happen), there will come a time when it pays to sell them. By then, the technology will be robust, and well known, so protecting proprietary information will be less crucial.