June 1, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
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To listen to all of John Batchelor’s podcasts, well worth your time, go here.
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. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit.
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
Embedded below the fold in two parts.
To listen to all of John Batchelor’s podcasts, well worth your time, go here.
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. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. 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
That helicopter worked so well that I wonder if JPL is thinking of a mission that would be an exclusive delivery of 100 at once by a simple capsule. When the air got thick enough they would all eject like in the early Vostok missions. But auto gyro down and power land instead of parachute.
Think of the revenue from the naming rights Maybe $5,000,000 a pop? Enough to fund it? With so many sub missions to plan after the landing event, JPL would need to subcontract the work to dozens of teams at the university and maybe even high school level around the world. NASA could retain the reality show licensing rights to the science show drama exploration concept, but independent production companies would do the work
George C. Propsed: “That helicopter worked so well that I wonder if JPL is thinking of a mission that would be an exclusive delivery of 100 at once by a simple capsule.”
Except for the lack of sufficient Earth-Mars communications, that sounds like a good idea.
Not only would it increase the exploration, but the necessary additional communication network would give plenty of business to a commercial deep space network company and a commercial Martian satellite company.
Philosophical Society of Washington Meeting Number 2459
“Ingenuity The First Flying Machine on Mars”
Bob Balaram (May 24, 2022)
https://youtu.be/jJCTUchs52U?t=895
“Bob is the originator of the concept that became the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars, and he served as the Chief Engineer for Ingenuity throughout its design, development, test and operation phases.”