Palin and NASA
Sarah Palin comments on the Obama administration’s policies towards NASA.
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
Sarah Palin comments on the Obama administration’s policies towards NASA.
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
How telling.. federally employed scientists and their cohort that populate the halls of NASA and the National Science Foundation (NSF) find Sara Palin obtuse and worthy of their contempt. My guess is that many in their GS pay scale are truly threatened by Palin’s plain talk and common sense approach to cutting the waste endemic to the vested-interest beauracracy that NASA has become (sadly). Don’t believe me… just ask NASA scientist and global warming expert Mr. Hansen.
G’day,
The other day I posted the following comment on Rand Simberg’s blog:
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G’day,
Here’s a modest suggestion to help change Republican thinking on such matters:
Organize a small but high powered delegation of free market space entrepreneurs which might include a celebrity astronaut.
Arrange a meeting with a certain well known Alaskan grandmother.
First thing to say to her would be ” Just why the hell does your party act like a bunch of space socialists? ”
Then explain- a) How a vigorous commercial space sector can help revitalize the American economy.
b) How NASA is wasting billions of dollars on such projects as the HLLV
c) The benefits to Alaska ie Kodiak Space Complex
I think getting the redoubtable Sarah on side would be highly beneficial.
ta
Ralph