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December 23, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast

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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.

 
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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

4 comments

  • Localfluff

    It was exciting to watch the launch of the JWST onboard the most sexy rocket in the world, Ariane 5, just now. I hope you didn’t miss it. The countdown as the very last Vulcain engine ignited on the Devil’s Island:
    “- Cinq, quatre, trois, dö, UNITÉ, feu! Allumage! Décolage!”
    https://youtu.be/PK_yguLapgA?t=48

  • Questioner

    Localfluff:

    I think the devil rides you! We cannot wish for Ariane 5 to fail tomorrow. Don’t be evil, aren’t you also interested in the scientific results of the James Webb telescope?

  • Localfluff

    @Questioner
    I am hysterically hopeful for the JWST’s success. And I am truly hopeful! Ariane 5 hasn’t failed in 15 years. And it is the most beautiful rocket. And as to the telescope, everything with it has already failed, and has been fixed safely here on the ground! There remains nothing more to fail, again. It cost $10 Billion and was delayed by 14 years for a reason. It has been fixed. It was difficult. I mean, try doing it yourself! Hands off. Everything is double plus okay now. It’s as with the LIGO gravitational observatory. When I first heard of it I thought that this cannot work, and payd no more attention to it. But it worked! Fantastically! Their famous paper had a thousand authors. Do I think that I am smarter than a thousand physicists who signed this Nobel Prise winning paper? It was a crazy idea. But it worked, and that’s enough. Not anymore. I learn. That’s also a way to use ones brain, it is good at it if one tries. And I am deeply impressed.

    JWST will see the first star that ever lit up our worlds. At the same time as it lits up! Through a quirk in spacetime. How can we do that? What are we? The answer will not be a slip up on the launch pad. Ariane 5 will do its do, as it has always have done. Or it will add to the English grammar in comparativum:
    Horrible. Terrible. JWST.

    The astronomer asks his creation:
    “- Mirror mirror in the sky, tell me what is furthest away!”
    And is answered by the Heavens, with:
    “- Furthest away from reality of all is your mind. You’re MAD!”

  • Jeff Wright

    I liked Ariane 4 the best-looks wise, with Saturn IB.

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