May 10, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
Embedded below the fold. With today’s podcast we add to the sad tale of SLS the story of the dropped oxygen tank.
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. With today’s podcast we add to the sad tale of SLS the story of the dropped oxygen tank.
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
I wonder if one should be so conspiratorial as to think that all the bad news about SLS now is “planted” as the beginning of the end of the project at the hand of the next NASA administrator? Dropping the tank aside, the timing of the negative revision report, the already decided delay, the apparition of the welding problems, ESA’s delayed service module for Orion could be signs of a coordinated effort to open up for a policy change here. Suggesting that EM-1 carry crew won’t help the project since the answer will be no, it cannot. The White House will of course not take on the responsibility for ordering a specific crewed launch. Such risks have to be diffused into the labyrinths of lower bureaucracy. Bob’s article didn’t help SLS either.