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The time has come for my annual short pre-Thanksgiving/Christmas fund drive for Behind The Black. I must do this every year in order to make sure I have earned enough money to pay my bills.

 

For this two-week campaign, I am offering a special deal to encourage donations. Donations of $200 will get a free autographed copy of the new paperback edition of Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8, while donations of $250 will get a free autographed copy of the new hardback edition. If you desire a copy, make sure you provide me your address with your donation.

 

As I noted in July, the support of my readers through the years has given me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes -- for good or ill -- that are happening across America. Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Only now does it appear that Washington might finally recognize this reality.

 

In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.

 

Your help allows me to do this kind of intelligent analysis. I take no advertising or sponsors, so my reporting isn't influenced by donations by established space or drug companies. Instead, I rely entirely on donations and subscriptions from my readers, which gives me the freedom to write what I think, unencumbered by outside influences.

 

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Thank you to all my readers and supporters and a Happy New Year!

As a truly miserable 2021 comes to an end, I want to send a very big and hearty thank you to all my readers and the many people who support my work here. I could not do this daily if I did not know that others were interested in what I did.

I also wish that 2022 be a great year for everyone. May we all see joy and happiness in our personal lives, and a renewal of freedom and the pursuit of happiness for everyone else in the coming year. The two go together.

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

17 comments

  • Jeff Wright

    Happy New Year!

  • LocalFluff

    Happy new year to ya all!
    I think things are looking up, actually. That the military tension in Eastern Europe is for the good. As is the recent developments in US domestic politics. And inflation will reverse central banks’ policies. And above all, literally, JWST will make history next year.

    On a personal note, where I live the clouds are dense and go all the way to the ground as a thick fog. People are still using their fireworks to the effect of diffuse lights in the half transparent darkness. At least the noise is still there, and that’s what counts, right?

    I have a bottle of cognac and a deck of card after having eaten great food that my neighbor cooked. God created me to drink cognac!

  • Joe

    Happy New Year. May 2022 exceed all expectations.

  • May 2022 be the year that ordinary people stop selling themselves short, and take back decision-making authority over their lives … moving their nations away from social technocracy and towards rights-respecting/responsibility-expecting governance.

  • V-Man

    Happy New Year to the host and all readers, from up here in lockdown Quebec. Hard to see how 2020.2.0 will be better than 2020.1.0, but hope springs eternal…

  • Lee Stevenson

    A very happy new year to each and every reader here! ( And especially to our host! ) , I’m hardly confident that 2022 will improve on last year, but let’s all keep fingers crossed!!!

  • sippin_bourbon

    Have a safe and blessed New Year, one and all.

  • Col Beausabre

    Happy New Year, Bob! And to all my fellow members of this Blog

  • Ron Desmarais

    Happy New Year Bob, thank you for all that you do. Hopefully in 2022 caving will continue to be a hobby and not an address!?

  • wayne

    Col Beausabre-
    I will second that thought.

  • Andi

    I’ll third it. Happy New Year everyone!

  • Happiest of New Years to everyone!

  • Joe Rosario

    Thank you for an informative and entertaining 2021 and here’s to an even better 2022! God bless you and your family, Bob!

  • James Street

    And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year:
    “Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.”

    And he replied:
    “Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the Hand of God.
    That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way.”

    – Minnie Louise Haskins

  • Gary H

    Happy New Year. This is the year that the people will remind the politicians.;

    “that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

  • Phil Berardelli

    Happy New Year, Bob. Congratulations on all of your fine reporting in 2021, especially on COVID and First Amendment issues. Best wishes for 2022!

  • Mitch S.

    Hip hip, Happy New Year to y’all.

    May the Omicron sweep out the covid panic.
    May the JWST unfurl successfully.
    May the Starship/SH get to orbit (and back – I think the heatshield might be the biggest headache).
    May the SLS have a successful launch and then the program be retired to a museum.
    May The Woke go back to sleep (or better yet, really wake up).
    May Putin and Ji decide Biden is too demented to risk messing with!
    May Eric Adams develop a stiff enough backbone to follow up on his promises regarding crime in NYC

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