October 17, 2017 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
Regarding the “Zuma” payload, I bet it is SpaceX’ own. Now that they reuse their first stages the time has come to use them, not only sell their use.
$50 billion current present value means $10 billion free cash flow profit every year for ever after, if a discount rate of 20% is used. This is risky business technologically, politically and it is also entirely up to one single man, so I think something above 10% describes the investment risk. They really count on huge profits in the future, because they quickly get discounted at this risk level.
Finances for the Mars colony are assured, if Morgan Stanley is representative for how investors think of SpaceX. They don’t need to go to the stock market to sell shares in order to materialize some of those $50 billion of expected future profits. They can get the money via bilateral agreements of investment. One of the owners today could put his SpaceX shares in a holding company and sell it to the stock market, to provide the market with valuable risk diversification options in a new kind of industry.