May 29, 2026 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
Embedded below the fold in two parts.
To listen to all of John Batchelor’s podcasts, go here.
The first segment below is definitely worth listening to, because my discussion with John Batchelor about the Blue Origin explosion yesterday demonstrated quite clearly the difficulty of most people to understand that the NASA Moon program is no longer the only game in town. John kept asking if SpaceX can continue our Moon program, and I kept trying to explain to him that it not only could, its private effort was the American space effort, and that effort will carry NASA’s increasingly irrelevant Artemis program along with it. He couldn’t get it. As far as he was concerned, the only program that mattered was the government program of NASA’s, and if that program is in trouble he worries we have nothing at all.
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
Embedded below the fold in two parts.
To listen to all of John Batchelor’s podcasts, go here.
The first segment below is definitely worth listening to, because my discussion with John Batchelor about the Blue Origin explosion yesterday demonstrated quite clearly the difficulty of most people to understand that the NASA Moon program is no longer the only game in town. John kept asking if SpaceX can continue our Moon program, and I kept trying to explain to him that it not only could, its private effort was the American space effort, and that effort will carry NASA’s increasingly irrelevant Artemis program along with it. He couldn’t get it. As far as he was concerned, the only program that mattered was the government program of NASA’s, and if that program is in trouble he worries we have nothing at all.
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