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Tonight I am on The Space Show with David Livingston, so if you have any questions you’d like to ask me, you can do it tonight live, starting now (7 pm Pacific).
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
Tonight I am on The Space Show with David Livingston, so if you have any questions you’d like to ask me, you can do it tonight live, starting now (7 pm Pacific).
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
Found most of what you had to say pretty much in accord with my own notions. I was a bit surprised at your comments about XCOR. Do you have anything other than gut feel to go on with respect to your dim view of Chez Greason? Of all the NewSpace “garage shops” out there, XCOR has always struck me as being fairly credible in that they’ve managed to remain a going concern for quite awhile, have actually grown revenue and headcount while resisting the doubtless occasionally very real urge to bite off more than can be chewed, and have done a notably better job of managing expectations and not over-promising than certain flamboyant British billionaires I could name.
I will also confess to being more than a mite flabbergasted at your apparent ignorance of the fact that Vandenberg AFB has been anything but the ghost town you evidently imagined it to be for the past several decades. Really? You do your general credibility no favors when you put howlers like that out in the world.
In connection with Vandenberg, I never claim to know everything. In fact, I quite admit that the more I learn, the less I really know.
As for XCOR, I have many reasons to remain skeptical, too complex to go into here. Moreover, I generally think that my skepticism here is useless. Better to wish them well and hope they succeed. Thus, I generally follow the policy with XCOR that if I have nothing good to say, I say nothing at all.