June 29, 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 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 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
What would it take for NASA to launch people from Vandenburg or Boca Chica instead of 39A?
Ron,
Before the Challenger accident, the Air Force was going to get Columbia and launch it from Vandenburg (we call it Vandy), NASA does not own it. The facility built for the shuttle is called SLC-6 but it is now used for the Delta-4 Heavy launches. Vandy launches only into polar orbits. We would look like the Chinese launching over our own homeland with the hazard of dropping stages on populated areas to reach the ISS.
The reason why SpaceX moved to Boca Chica was to get away from NASA. Like Bob said, NASA has become a customer and not an owner of the spacecraft like the old days. In a hypothetical situation, if NASA and SpaceX were to have Boca Chica as a joint base, it would take years for a launch of Super Heavy to occur because of government bureaucracy, in my opinion.
You know, I like JB, but I am disturbed by some his guests. Case in point, a guy on last night that got his MA in 1992, went to Washington and stayed, in and out of government, ever since. Thirty years inside the Beltway. He’s in the bubble – totally divorced from the rest of the country.
Thank &diety for guests like Selena Zito!
And, yes, I’ve sent a note to JB expressing my concerns