December 15, 2020 Zimmerman Space Show podcastThe podcast for my 90-minute appearance with David Livington on The Space Show on December 15, 2020 is now available here.
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
The podcast for my 90-minute appearance with David Livington on The Space Show on December 15, 2020 is now available here.
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
Great show!
tangentially, I’ll toss this in here…
The American Rocketeer: Frank Malina
JPL history documentary 2010
https://youtu.be/jlNz634TjN0
1:29:24
The show asked for a listener comment on green new deal rocketry. Spacex is well positioned. The propellant generation plan for Mars can work on Earth too. CO2 + H2O + Photon = CH4 + O2. If I may skip the balancing and the technical details which will be familiar to anyone who has studied the readily available web content; with much engineering to be worked out by Spacex.
Bob,
A question about what you guys talked about: a privately owned fifth space shuttle? I have read the paper for use of the shuttle’s external tank(s) to make into station, but never a private shuttle.
I could not find anything on the search engines about this fifth shuttle. This really sounds interesting. Any names or dates would be appreciated.
Jay: I am working from memory, but I think Rockwell was the lead in proposing NASA build a private fifth shuttle for commercial purposes. I might have the company wrong, but no matter. The point is that NASA said no, unfortunately.
Thanks Bob,
I will look into that.
Jay: It was even worse than that. Back before ULA there was another Boeing / Lockheed joint venture called United Space Alliance (USA) to process and maintain the Space Shuttle orbiters for NASA. One day the CEO of USA made the public comment that one day in the future they’d like to work out a deal with NASA where they could own the orbiters and sell NASA — and other customers — flights.
The NASA administrator at the time (I think it was Goldin) was said to be so enraged at that idea that he called the CEOs of Boeing and Lockheed to have the USA CEO fired. He was.
The Commercial Crew program really changed the culture of NASA.