September 26, 2017 Zimmerman Space Show podcast
You can now listen to my two-hour appearance last night on The Space Show, posted here as a podcast available for download.
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 print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. 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
You can now listen to my two-hour appearance last night on The Space Show, posted here as a podcast available for download.
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 print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. 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
Now you gave rocket man Kim the idea to forge a fake Sputnik copy! He’s even inherited the original tools, he’ll do it. And version two will be sold together with the dog.
Good stuff!
Always enjoy the longer-form.
Excellent point you hammered, regarding the role of Government in “infrastructure” type activity earlier in our history & as it applies today in Space, and the concept of private-property vs. public-ownership. (This was the back-n-forth referencing railroads & interstate highways.)
It’s vital Government creates the atmosphere wherein Private & Civic Institutions can flourish and private individuals & business can operate freely & within known consistent rules. It’s less about physically building ‘stuff,’ than it is about establishing an environment where smart people & capital can easily come together and create goods & services others will freely buy.
–It keeps the incentives correct, otherwise you get what we have today, endless secondary & tertiary intervention distorting demand, supply, and cost.
tangentially- referencing the interstate highway system;
The respective State’s actually own the roadway and right-of-way for interstate Highways.
When started, the initial costs were split 50-50 between State/Federal, that quickly went to 60-40, and finally with the Feds paying 90%, but the States own the roads.
Maintenance, repair, and replacement, is where it gets very political and porky.