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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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“With all due respect, I will not consent to a search without a proper warrant.”

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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.

 

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2 comments

  • joe

    Thanks for posting this Robert, more and more of these intrusions are being reported by pilots all of the time, AOPA has reported on a couple of these recently including one of a glider pilot that spent the night in jail for overflying a nuclear facility,( non powered flight looking for thermal lift on a joy flight), it seems as though the DHS and other federal agency’s need no reason to do this, contrary to popular belief, not all pilots are well to do, many are just normal people who are interested in flying as a hobby and who are just trying to have a good time. These are scary times in America when a government can pull up with guns and dogs and intimidate anyone they please, I think our founding fathers are rolling in there graves at these injustices!

  • Pilots are a pretty savvy group. The government has no idea what could happen if they awaken this group to action.

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