Thanksgiving/Christmas fund drive is over. Big thanks to everyone who donated!
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Readers!
My annual Thanksgiving/Christmas fund drive for Behind the Black is now over. Though it sagged in the middle, the final week was an amazing barn-burner. My readers responded in an astonishing manner, so that 2024 now looks like it will turn out to be the best year for me financially since I started this webpage in 2010.
Thank you to all! I am always at a loss to express my gratitude for this support. No one is required to pay anything to read my work. And yet so many of you are still willing to do so. Thank you again!
I will leave this thank you notice up for the next few days, so that everyone can see it.
Readers!
Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black. Your support allows 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.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the 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 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.
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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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Though I can afford but a modest contribution, I cherish this site and the knowledge I gain from both your work, Robert, and the commentary of my fellow readers! What a country!