On the road, in California
I spent the day driving to Orange County, California to attend the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Southern California Aerospace Systems and Technology Conference tomorrow, where I will be the keynote speaker at their evening banquet. Though I will be at the conference, I expect to be able to post tomorrow periodically.
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 spent the day driving to Orange County, California to attend the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Southern California Aerospace Systems and Technology Conference tomorrow, where I will be the keynote speaker at their evening banquet. Though I will be at the conference, I expect to be able to post tomorrow periodically.
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
Excellent!
Will you be posting your speech on BTB?
No, not likely. I do these lectures often, but they rarely videotape them, and even when they do I don’t usually get access.
Then again, if people are interested in hearing me give a lecture, they simply have to ask me to do it. I have a variety of lectures that I give, depending on request. Saturday’s talk is entitled “Predicting the future of space exploration, based on the past.” It is essentially a history lesson about what has and has not worked in past human efforts to establish colonies and new societies in frontier settings. I then link this to the present day situation in space.
There are speaker’s fees, of course.
Awesome. Please post something about what is going on at the conference. You know, pics of what is in the swag bag, people in costumes, different speakers or seminars you attended and of course a funny story about an after party.
Oh, I really wished people who go to things like this would do more to show us outsiders what it is like. It may seem mundane and it probably is but I listen to the Space Show while I fish so nothing is boring if it is also interesting.
Seriously, if I read one more blog where the author mentions going to an event like this, then says absolutly nothing about what went on or their experiences there…
Your wish is my command, though there is that saying, be careful what you wish for.
This conference is an industry conference, not a new space activist meeting. Thus, the papers are generally boring.
Thanks :)