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It is now July, time once again to celebrate the start of this webpage in 2010 with my annual July fund-raising campaign.

 

This year I celebrate the fifteenth anniversary since I began Behind the Black. During that time I have done more than 33,000 posts, mostly covering the global space industry and the related planetary and astronomical science that comes from it. Along the way I have also felt compelled as a free American citizen to regularly post my thoughts on the politics and culture of the time, partly because I think it is important for free Americans to do so, and partly because those politics and that culture have a direct impact on the future of our civilization and its on-going efforts to explore and eventually colonize the solar system.

 

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On the radio

Tonight I will be appearing on the first hour of Coast to Coast with George Noory, 10 pm (Pacific), to discuss the decision of NASA, to be announced at 4 pm (Eastern) today, on what company the agency has chosen to build its commercial crew ferry.

As I mentioned earlier, the rumors say it will be Boeing. From my perspective, common sense says it should be SpaceX. We shall see.

This post will remain at the top of the website for the next few hours.

Genesis cover

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.


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"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

7 comments

  • Doug

    Since when did common sense have anything to do with what the government does? :)

  • Michael Cohen

    I heard your interview, but nothing about UFOs, aliens and things like that. Did you know that Ben Rich, the former head of Lockheed’s stealth program, said on his deathbed confession twenty years ago that we are using ET technology and the US Military has been to the starts. See Ben Rich Lockheed ET on google.
    So what do you think about his remarks? Was he insane? But how do you explain all those UFOs running around making our technology look primitive?
    I now understand how the astronomers keep telling how they find ‘earth like’ planets. They get it from our military people who area actually there.

  • Hi Michael,

    Sorry, but you won’t hear much about UFOs when I appear on Coast to Coast. Take a long and detailed look at my website. My interests are focused on the cutting edge of science and space exploration that is happening today, by humans. I don’t spend a lot of time speculating about stuff that can’t be documented reliably.

  • A good presentation, as always, Bob. I love the fact that you always squeeze in an endorsement of free enterprise for the benefit of George’s vast listening audience. I wish you were allotted a longer time on air. It would be fun if you could branch out into talking about some of your cave survey adventures.

  • As I always say, tell C2C! They listen to their listeners.

  • Cotour

    Mathematics and physics? Measurement and duplication of results? Observation and comparing those observations with what has already been observed and verified?

    Some things just can not be argued with based on the above rationally established protocols and yet sometimes we choose to fool ourselves because we can not fathom what we observe and reconcile those observations with the reality and morality that we “know” to exist.

    If Joseph Goebbles did not say that he should have.

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