A plane is born
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
Great video!
I worked for a company that did a fair amount of work in Boeing facilities around Puget Sound, although most of our work was in the sub-assembly plants rather than the final assembly building in Everett. The video does a nice job of illustrating Boeing’s ‘moving platform’ assembly line. Cars are cool, but airplanes are magic.
Planes now; rockets next!
Boeing has popular tours of their Everett plant. I went on it a little over a year ago. The 737 line was in a part of the building that didn’t have an overlook, so it was the only plane we couldn’t watch being built. Unfortunately, they don’t let you stay and watch for hours on end, but it is wonderful what you can see in five or ten minutes at each observation station.
If you ever get into the Seattle area:
http://www.boeing.com/boeing/commercial/tours/index.page
And none of this happens at this level of excellence and volume without one key thing. Can anyone guess what that one thing is?
I am trying to come up with an appropriate observation about who the plane is being delivered to but am stuck for the moment. Feel free to participate.