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Please forgive this pleading appeal, but to survive I have to do several fund-raising campaigns each year. Please consider helping me celebrate my 73rd birthday this month by donating or subscribing to Behind the Black.

As I have noted repeatedly, I am routinely ahead of the curve in analyzing the news and what it means for the future. Fifteen years ago I said NASA’s SLS rocket was garbage and should be cancelled. Almost a decade ago I said its Orion capsule was a lie and a bad idea. As early as 1998, long before almost anyone else, I predicted in my first book, Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8, that private enterprise and freedom would conquer the solar system, not government. And while everyone else in the media still thinks Mars has no water, I have been reporting the real results from the orbiters now for more than five years, that Mars is in fact a planet largely covered with ice.

I could provide many more examples. If you want to know what others will discover a decade hence, read what I write here at Behind the Black. Read my history books if you want to find out why the initial exploration of the solar system has transpired as it has. You will also find out what is going to happen in the next century.

Though it might sound like I am bragging with this last claim, my overall track record bears it out.

So please consider donating or subscribing to Behind the Black, either by giving a one-time contribution or a regular subscription. I could really use the support at this time. There are five ways of doing so:

1. Zelle: This is the only internet method that charges no fees. All you have to do is use the Zelle link at your internet bank and give my name and email address (zimmerman at nasw dot org). What you donate is what I get. (Note: if your bank requests you reference “Diane Zimmerman” in using my email address, do so. We are temporarily using one of her accounts, tied to my email address.)

2. Patreon: Go to my website there and pick one of five monthly subscription amounts, or by making a one-time donation. Takes about a 10% cut.

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