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April 25, 2016 Zimmerman Space Show appearance

My appearance on the Space Show yesterday is now available as a podcast. I strongly recommend people listen to it, especially the first hour. During that section I compared at length the cost and practicality of the Falcon Heavy with SLS/Orion, and noted how badly Congress and Presidents from both parties have served the American people these past twenty years in mismanaging our aerospace industry.

David Livingston called it a rant, and criticized me for it during the show, but I think the time has come for more Americans to rage in horror at the foolishness and possible corruption of our elected leaders in Washington.

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.

 
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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

One comment

  • Wayne

    Very enlightening show. I’m getting more-n-more schooled in the difference between Crony-space & more Free-Market oriented Space.
    With reference to mutual-funds & investments into private companies; I won’t speak to the exact vehicles mutual funds use to invest in non-public companies, but depending on what the Prospectus specifies the individual Fund can hold, it’s a perfectly legal investment.
    Generally– only specific Funds within a family of Funds, will hold “non-liquid” investments, and advisory-management is responsible for “marking to market” the carrying value, but not on a daily basis. (which excludes them from being held by certain type of mutual funds.)
    –These limited-market investments, will be inside specialty Funds, and not inside for example, a money-market Fund or a generic Stock or Bond Fund. And even then, in relatively small percentages, per Fund.
    That’s not to say you won’t encounter high-flyer specialty Funds, but the Vanguard’s & Fidelity’s of the world, only hold these type of investments in a relatively small number of Funds, so you aren’t likely to “accidently” own a piece of SpaceX unless you intend to invest in these type of Companies.

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