February 12, 2021 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.
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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
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
Bob, great columns as always in revealing the big picture in space developments. A couple of nits: I am pretty sure that Voyagers 1 and 2 are now a bit beyond object Waywayout., and of course getting further away all the time, since they are not in orbit around the Sun, but on an escape trajectory.
Secondly, the plane of the solars system is the “ECliptic”, not “ELLiptic”, although the orbits of the planets are ELLiptical.
Ps. I think the “Ecliptic” actually refers to the path the Sun follows across the stars over a year, when viewed from Earth. Since each planet has a slightly different orbital inclination, there is only an average plane of the planets and it is just called that… the average plane of the planets, as far as I know.
Ray Van Dune: Re the Voyager craft, I was asked a question and answered off the cuff, so I am not surprised I was not quite right. I just checked. Voyager 1 is at 152 au. Voyager 2 is at 127 au.
So I was half right. Either way, both are now considered beyond the heliosphere and thus in interstellar space, outside the solar system. Farfarout though farther away than Voyager 2 is still part of the solar system because it remains in orbit around the Sun.
As for my misuse of elliptic, thank you. I say a lot in a short amount of time, and garble my words sometimes.