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My July fund-raising campaign to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary since I began Behind the Black is now over. I want to thank all those who so generously donated or subscribed, especially those who have become regular supporters. I can't do this without your help. I also find it increasingly hard to express how much your support means to me. God bless you all!

 

The donations during this year's campaign were sadly less than previous years, but for this I blame myself. I am tired of begging for money, and so I put up the campaign announcement at the start of the month but had no desire to update it weekly to encourage more donations, as I have done in past years. This lack of begging likely contributed to the drop in donations.

 

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February 1, 2024 Quick space links

Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay. This post is also an open thread. I welcome my readers to post any comments or additional links relating to any space issues, even if unrelated to the links below. I also apologize for the lack of posting today, as I have been dealing with eye doctors.

 

 

 

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

5 comments

  • David Ross

    Oof. Not a good memory. I still had a clock radio in February 2003, living in Houston. I woke up that Saturday ~8 AM CST to the announcers discussing that collapse over Palestine.

  • Brewingfrog

    There were numerous reports of large chunks of debris falling in parts of East Texas. Feds were told of the areas, or given GPS devices with the spots marked, but never bothered to investigate or return the GPS gizmos. Lots of bad feelings from people who revered and admired the Space Program and honestly wanted to help.

  • wayne

    Dropping this in here….

    “Elon Musk Denied $55 Billion in Tesla Compensation by Delaware Judge!”
    Viva Frei (2-1-24)
    https://youtu.be/xfPhJxfKfrQ
    9:48

  • Jeff Wright

    NYPOST had a story about one of the shareholders behind this- punk RichardTornetta, a scumbag drummer–who won’t do anything but support a beer or drug habit.

    Some people earn their money on how it is spent—this is money that could have gone into futurism now in the pockets of low class nightcrawlers.

    Shareholder interference is what drove Boeing in the toilet.

    Had he done this to poser Bezos or Branson I would have cheered.

    Musk has both the money and the interest in futurism in one package–Bill Gates money with a Gary Hudson zeal.

    I hope both this drummer and the robe take a long walk off a short plank somewhere.

  • Ray Van Dune

    I got up early (in PST) to watch the landing of Columbia, and as I left the bedroom, I heard a comment on the radio that they had not yet made contact with the orbiter after reentry blackout.

    I have a memory of seeing a long-distance TV shot of a line of vehicles leaving the Cape Canaveral landing strip after the Columbia did not appear overhead. It was the relatives and dignitaries who had planned to greet the astronauts. My wife came into the TV room and I told her what was happening and that it looked bad.

    She said “Why don’t they wait a while longer – maybe it is just late.” I replied “Orbital mechanics doesn’t work that way… late is never.”

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