October 18, 2017 Pratt on Texas, Zimmerman podcast
On Wednesday, I appeared for an hour with Robert Pratt on his radio show, Pratt on Texas. The podcast of that appearance can now be found and listened to 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
On Wednesday, I appeared for an hour with Robert Pratt on his radio show, Pratt on Texas. The podcast of that appearance can now be found and listened to 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
Great show. (I like Mr. Pratt.)
Reference Norman Rockwell’s painting “Grissom and Young” from 1965, which shows Mr. Schmitt. It’s referred to as “The Longest Step” by the Norman Rockwell Museum, and they have an extensive digital archive of the B&W & color reference-pictures, taken at NASA and used by Rockwell to complete the painting.
http://collections.nrm.org/search.do?db=object&page=1&keyword=Grissom+and+Young+1965&view=lightbox
For the painting itself; L-R is technician Joe Schmitt, Astronauts John Young & Gus Grissom, and technician Alan M. Rochford.