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Chang’e-4 and Yutu-2 awaken for fifth lunar day

The new colonial movement: China’s lunar lander Chang’e-4 and rover Yutu-2 have been awakened to begin work for their fifth lunar day on the far side of the Moon.

According to the report from this official Chinese government news source, Yutu-2 has now traveled just under 600 feet from the lander. We know from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) images taken during the rover’s second lunar day of travel that it had moved to the west, but we don’t really know much else beyond that. LRO has not released any new images, and the Chinese have not told us.

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 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

2 comments

  • Cotour

    Want to be truly impressed by raw vision and determination, ability, technology, size and scale?

    https://youtu.be/b8cCsUBYSkw 24:34 minutes of well spent time.

    Want to know why Joe Biden and his recent comments may indicate just one more attempt at America’s Democrats surrendering our position in the world to further the Globalist agenda that the Chinese will easily dominate? Biden is clearly conflicted regarding then Chinese since his son and the step son of former Secretary Of State John Kerry are connected to the Chinese by a $1.5 Billion dollar ‘investment” in their hedge fund. The Chinese know how to invest their money in American politics and the biggest bang for their buck. The Chinese invested politics. Real collusion? Stay tuned.

    Combine three things, this one of many Chinese power projects, their demonstration that they can put technology on the moon with the goal of developing a base there. And we can’t even put a man on the space station, and then add to that this quote from a current leading presidential candidate for president of the United States.

    Joe Biden: “Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said Wednesday night that China was “not competition” for the U.S., prompting blowback from prominent members of both political parties.

    At an event in Iowa City, Biden was explaining why he believes concerns that China could eventually surpass the U.S. as a world superpower and economic force are overstated.

    “China is going to eat our lunch? Come on, man,” the former vice president said.

    “I mean, you know, they’re not bad folks, folks. But guess what? They’re not competition for us,” he added.”

    If its not Hillary that will deliver America to the New World Order / Globalist agenda then it looks like if the Democrats have their way it will be Joe Biden, or Bernie, or Butteigge, or Beto, or Klobachure, or whom ever the Democrats choose to run things the next time they gain power.

    (This goes also for the run of the mill Republican leadership, they are as guilty, greedy, corrupt and perverted as the Democrat leadership.)

    And the Chinese know all they have to do is wait 4 or 8 years to move their pieces ahead in the chess game that is played on this planet. Like I pointed out, the Chinese invented politics and know the game well, they have been at it for 5000 years or so. They see time as their solution to all goals that America stands in front of that they set, and they have the patience and self discipline to make it so.

    Joe Biden? Really? I think not.

  • Cotour

    Follow up on China and our politics: Steve Bannon

    https://youtu.be/0V7w0R12eos

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