February 24, 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.
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
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
Good point about the Shuttle’s main engines now “failing” on the SLS. I’ve always only heard and read good reviews of the RS-25 engines. Very good. They flew 133 Shuttles, all crewed, without a flaw. Three engines at a time so that makes 400 engine launches, reused, perfectly every time. And refired in orbit. I bet there were half a dozen guys in NASA’s control room prepared every time they were about to fire, watching their screens trained to react on any kind of malfunction from lots of extensive simulations of whatever could go wrong and what to do about it. And never did they see a single pixel with the color red on their screens.
But now the SLS fraudsters can’t make up a better excuse than to blame those engines for why they won’t deliver anything ever. And the fools walk like donkeys who never will get to bite the carrot dangling in front of them. Because that’s their masters’ dinner.
LocalFluff,
I believe there was one failure of one of the main engines in the shuttle during flight, STS-93. The mission was still successful.
It is a great engine, I agree. This was the first component that was already to go for Constellation/SLS on day one of the project and now they are having problems with it.
Side-note: Years ago, I wanted to know how many engines were going to be available for Ares-V/Jupiter/SLS. I created a spreadsheet with all the engines, right down to the serial numbers. The ones they wanted to use were the Block 2 and 2A models. I was surprised that they only selected twelve engines, when it showed they had enough Block 2/2A engines for two more rockets (the Jupiter and SLS four engine model not the five engine Ares-V). I wish I kept that list.