On the road
I am presently winging my way to Panama City, Florida, to give two different lectures at the Doolitte Institute tomorrow. More information on each are here and here
Posting will continue, but be somewhat intermittent.
Posted in the air from Tucson to Chicago.
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 am presently winging my way to Panama City, Florida, to give two different lectures at the Doolitte Institute tomorrow. More information on each are here and here
Posting will continue, but be somewhat intermittent.
Posted in the air from Tucson to Chicago.
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 hope your presentations are big hits and get you asked back for encores.
I must say I find the graphics atop the web pages containing info on your presentations to be a tad mysterious. I’m not aware of any launch vehicle – U.S., Soviet or other – that had grid fins on its tail end and certainly none that launched with them deploying. I suspect someone at Doolittle told a non-space-savvy graphic artist, “Just do something Space Age-y.” You should ask for a digital copy of the artwork. It might make a good exhibit for a future talk about ‘Space and the Modern Mind’ or some such.
Looks like they copied the SpaceX top fins and placed them down on the bottom end.. Different but, strange.