August 16, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
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 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
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 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
Great show, as always, Bob.
It really is hard to judge just what Sierra Nevada has been up to, since they put so little out in the public domain. In this respect, they’re more like Blue Origin than SpaceX. Granted, the first mission is not until 2021, so it’s not like there was a high urgency for it when the contract was announced in 2016 – in the way, say, there was for CRS back in 2008-10, when NASA was feeling the heat of the end of Shuttle operations and desperately needed Cargo Dragon and Cygnus to get operational as quickly as possible.
It’s also true that developing Dream Chaser (which was on most accounts farther away from operational capability than either Dragon or Starliner were when the crew downselect was done in 2014) required some considerable work to develop into a cargo vehicle (especially that expendable cargo module), so it may be hasty to assume they’re behind schedule. Then again, it is the rare space vehicle that DOESN’T experience development delays, so…
I hope they can meet the schedule, because it’s a nifty vehicle with a lot of potential and different capabilities from the other crew and cargo vehicles on the market now. I’d love to see it fly.