September 29, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
Embedded below the fold. Spent a lot of time talking about the Russian Sea Launch deal and the Sierra Nevada UN deal, as well as the Mars rovers.
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. Spent a lot of time talking about the Russian Sea Launch deal and the Sierra Nevada UN deal, as well as the Mars rovers.
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
The 19th Annual International Mars Society Convention 22-25 September this year offered some interesting talks and debates. Like this one about the Asteroid Redirection Mission about an hour into the clip below. You can imagine Bob Zubrin’s feelings about this silly half of an idea, bringing the mountain to Muhammed, or at least a pea of it:
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/91565670
General access to videos and the schedule. Not all itineraries seem to be covered by videos online yet.
http://www.avprva.com/live/mars/?mc_cid=7f25612309&mc_eid=559dc6527c
http://www.marssociety.org/convention2016/2016-Schedule.html