July 25, 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 think this is the right show that my comment pertains to.
Bob says NASA does not do things for profit. This is generally correct, but commercial companies reimburse NASA for things. For instance, if a commercial company needs to use unique facilities at NASA, they will reimburse for the use. This would include upgrading the facilities. The company does not take away upgrades after they are finished with NASA and, most likely, the upgrades can be used by any other project or company. Profit in the business world is used to improve a company’s infrastructure, among other things. So, NASA, in that respect, does get some profit. The commercial companies also reimburse NASA for NASA’s time (i.e. paychecks) whether to operate test facilities or do engineering. Also, it seems that NASA may waive this for various reasons too. It is all negotiated at a high level.
Another example of NASA getting “profit” has to do with patents. Why would NASA patent technology? They wish to license it or sell it to get money back. I do not know where the money goes (the NASA Center general fund, the US general fund and/or the NASA inventor?), but some chunk of money must come back to NASA (if the patent is lucky enough to be valuable).