January 16, 2026 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 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
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


A video about Doug Bernauer CEO of Radiant that is building portable nuclear micro reactors. He’s a former SpaceX guy and trying to bring that same rapid iterative design and build process to his company. At 2:44 he makes the comment about the nuclear regulatory bureaucracy “We don’t have the regulatory environment that’s set up and ready for innovation.”
“This SpaceX Engineer is Building a Mobile Nuclear Reactor | Doug Bernauer”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6B8n7Jg7Zo
(34 minutes from a year ago. Interesting but nothing profound)
Another article about former SpaceX employees trying to bring SpaceX’s business model to the Military Industrial Complex. Castelion is building hypersonic missiles, and Divergent Technologies is 3D printing missile bodies and structures. The article gives a nice summary of SpaceX’s practice “You need to get to hardware early, you need to test, then you need to iterate fast, and then do it again. The way that you’re able to do that is, anywhere that you need to, vertically integrate.”
“Meet the New Weapon-Making Kids on the Block Under Hegseth’s Watch”
https://economiccollapse.report/meet-the-new-weapon-making-kids-on-the-block-under-hegseths-watch/