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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


A new U.N. report states that Iran has moved one step closer to building its own nuclear weapon.

The day of reckoning looms: A new U.N. report states that Iran has moved another step closer to building its own nuclear weapon.

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3 comments

  • Thunderbunny

    Hi Robert.

    I listen to your reporting when you are a guest on the John Batchelor Show and look for them in John’s podcasts. Your reports are a refreshing and much needed counter to what passes for space and science reporting in the mainstream media at large.

    Anyway, to comment upon the UN report- I don’t think anything will change insofar as the Obama Administration’s virtual inaction on the Iranian nuclear issue. Chuck Hagel, the new ‘Defense(less) Secretary’ let slip what the real policy is and always has been. They believe Iran can be ‘contained’ as a nuclear power. They will NOT act with military force to prevent the Iranian bomb.

    As John Batchelor is fond of saying- they’re all ‘JawJaw.’ Obama does not believe Israel is worthy of American support- he only gives lip service to lull his Jewish constituency to sleep. He will only act to RESTRAIN Israeli action.

    Obama fears Israel far more than Iran.

    God help Israel with this president.

  • JGL

    Mr. Obamas philosophy consists of the idea that America is too powerful and that this

    inbalance in power in the world is a bad thing.

    One can see this outlook and following policy actions in winding down the power of America in

    the world as either “the right thing to do” as the president is taken to describe his actions

    or a form of irresponsibility and abandonment of his fiduciary responsibility (T—-N).

    An argument can certainly be made related to the accumulation of power and the abuse of it,

    but that can only go so far IMO.

    We need to be aware about who we are choosing to “run” the world America, China or Russia.

    Choose one.

  • Thank you for your kind words about my appearances on the John Batchelor Show. I do appreciate them.

    Amen to your comments regarding Obama, Iran, and Israel. As I say often on Behind the Black, the day of reckoning looms. Sadly, this administration (and the American public who voted for it) is unwilling to face this reality.

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