Thanksgiving/Christmas fund drive for Behind the Black extended one week
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Sadly I have been compelled to extend this short Thanksgiving/Christmas fund drive for Behind The Black by one extra week, into December. The response from my readers has been good, but sadly it hasn’t been enough to match past years. At the moment support in 2024 will be down from the previous three years.
The special deal to encourage donations still holds. Donations of $200 will get a free autographed copy of the new paperback edition of Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8, while donations of $250 will get a free autographed copy of the new hardback edition. If you desire a copy, make sure you provide me your address with your donation.
As I noted in July, the support of my readers through the years has given me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes — for good or ill — that are happening across America. Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Only now does it appear that Washington might finally recognize this reality.
Nor was this prediction unusual. My analysis of space and other science matters is routinely ahead of the game. For example, in 2020 I correctly predicted that the COVID panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
Your help allows me to do this kind of intelligent in-advance analysis. I take no advertising or sponsors, so my reporting isn’t influenced by donations by established space or drug companies. Instead, I rely entirely on donations and subscriptions from my readers, which gives me the freedom to write what I think, unencumbered by outside influences.
Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black., You can support me either by giving a one-time contribution or a regular subscription. 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.
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This post will remain at the top of the page until December 8, 2024.
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. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. 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
Dear Mr. Zimmerman,
Thank you very much for the continuous information that you provide in your website and in the John Batchelor program. I enjoy immensely those conversation with Mr. Batchelor. Just like you, I’m very “attached” to the Apollo 8 mission and still get emotional whenever I hear the Christmas eve broadcast and have bought some items related to this mission. I hope that I get the chance to see American astronauts back on the Lunar surface. I just donated $250 and I’m looking forward to add your book to my collection of books signed by astronauts.
Best wishes,
P.S.
David J. Nunes: And thank YOU for your kind words about my work as well as your donation.
David J. Nunes–
You Sir, are a Great American!
-Your value-added video-link:
https://archive.org/details/apollo-8-december-1968-super-8mm-1440x-1080
May you have the best Thanksgiving holiday.
History also has its downside. I chose to give to my local homeless shelter instead.
–Gary
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