February 15, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
Embedded below the fold. The main topic was the idiotic suggestion by NASA’s acting administrator that they put astronauts on the first launch of SLS, and send them to the Moon. John tried to encourage me to call the suggestion “unwise.” I insisted on calling it plain “stupid.”
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
Embedded below the fold. The main topic was the idiotic suggestion by NASA’s acting administrator that they put astronauts on the first launch of SLS, and send them to the Moon. John tried to encourage me to call the suggestion “unwise.” I insisted on calling it plain “stupid.”
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
Video of the PSLV deploying all 104 satellites in orbit:
https://youtu.be/cvJYSmplzXc?t=50
Lot of rotation on the released satellites. Won’t that interfere with their photography mission?
I think they have momentum wheels to control their spin.
I heard the part of the broadcast where you said it was stupid. Good for you for sticking with “stupid”.