Flames in space.
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
Off Topic:
An update on an earlier post on Master Sergeant CJ Grisham
https://www.michaelyon-online.com/quick-notes-and-updates.htm
imagine the implications of this low temp flame as related to internal combustion engines, where some 70 percent of that combustion is lost to heat going out the radiator or the tail pipe, if they could tailor that combustion where the energy was not lost to heat but was more fully used to drive the piston down its bore to make use of the btu’s in that fuel, great post mr. Z
Larry Niven theorized about the properties of flames in microgravity in his book “The Integral Trees” I wish there had been a sequel!
The automotive genius, Smokey Yunick was experimenting with engines to capture the wasted heat of internal combustion using the exhaust gases to preheat the intake. Before his death he was working on a car with no radiator. I don’t know if he ever completed it.