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The donations during this year's campaign were sadly less than previous years, but for this I blame myself. I am tired of begging for money, and so I put up the campaign announcement at the start of the month but had no desire to update it weekly to encourage more donations, as I have done in past years. This lack of begging likely contributed to the drop in donations.

 

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Louis Armstrong – A Kiss To Build A Dream On

An evening pause: Performed live in 1962.

Hat tip Jim Mallamace.

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 or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. 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

5 comments

  • Lee Stevenson

    Apparently this video contains content from SVT ( I’m presuming that is the Swedish TV corp ) and I can’t watch it due to copyright reasons….. ( I’m in Sweden… Your guess is as good as mine???),
    One direct for you Bob…. I don’t know if it is his own or not, but I just heard Neil deGrasse Tyson remark on Apollo 8, “They went to the moon, but discovered the Earth”, which I think is wonderfully poetic. You have probably heard it before, but thought it worth sharing anyway.

  • Lee Stevenson: Tyson is quoting my book.

  • Lee Stevenson

    @Bob…. I had a sneaking suspicion…. It’s a compliment to your writing skills that it’s made the journey into general use….. It’s a wonderful turn of phrase. It’s a shame he didn’t give you credit.

  • Lee Stevenson: Actually, I should be more precise. Tyson is quoting from my book a quote from astronaut Bill Anders. I didn’t write it, I only conveyed what Bill Anders had said on his way back from the Moon.

  • Lee Stevenson

    I guess whatever the origen, it’s a beautiful, and very thoughtful and thought provoking phrase. The photos from Apollo 8, and from Voyager 1’s “pale blue dot” picture throw our planet into remarkable context, and anything that helps keep these perspectives in the eye of our future generations is all for the good!
    I’m not the kind of guy that gets wet eyed easily, but the late great Carl Sagan’s monologue regarding the voyagers photo always fills me up
    https://youtu.be/GO5FwsblpT8
    Here we stand at the entrance to a new year and a new beginning in many different ways, I hope we can all overcome our differences, and perhaps work together, world wide, to get off this rock, and start to migrate.

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