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It is now July, time once again to celebrate the start of this webpage in 2010 with my annual July fund-raising campaign.

 

This year I celebrate the fifteenth anniversary since I began Behind the Black. During that time I have done more than 33,000 posts, mostly covering the global space industry and the related planetary and astronomical science that comes from it. Along the way I have also felt compelled as a free American citizen to regularly post my thoughts on the politics and culture of the time, partly because I think it is important for free Americans to do so, and partly because those politics and that culture have a direct impact on the future of our civilization and its on-going efforts to explore and eventually colonize the solar system.

 

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September 16, 2022 Quick space links

Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay, who trolls Twitter so I don’t have to.

Genesis cover

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 print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. 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

2 comments

  • Doubting Thomas

    Just got back from a 3 day “Space” vacation in Boca Chica. Beach road was open, so got to drive right by Starship 24 and Booster 7. Got to walk right up to the Rocket Garden. Visited the Rocket Ranch. Nice people. Got to see the observation outpost that I have seats reserved for first flight. It was a great visit. Then I went to the airport to go home.

    Brownsville TX airport (BRO) is a small airport with about 125 seats in ticketing area. Only 2 airlines serve BRO. ALL ticketing area waiting seats FILLED with illegal aliens carrying their ICE /Court paperwork in little red bags.

    Show the ticket agent your little paperwork and get a free ticket. Show the TSA officer your little paperwork and get admitted to the gate area without ID. Every one of the illegals had a cellphone. Each had an envelope with some number of crisp new $1, $5 and $10 bills. All dressed casually but well, almost all young adult males.

    United flight before us to Houston had what looked like all seats filled by illegal aliens. UAL ticket agent said I was wrong, only 97% filled with illegals. We were going home to Fort Worth. Our fight to DFW had 72 seats in coach. 64 illegal aliens on board to be dispersed through the metroplex. One of the crew told me as we were waiting for a bus that UA and AA get full price for each illegal ticket. They get more bucks from illegals than from me. This explains why AA was trying to get me to give up my two seats.

    I’m ready to immigrate to Mars Elon.

  • Dick Eagleson

    Good news about the Russkie ASAT debris. Thanks for that.

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