The King’s Singers – Barbara Allen
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
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
Because of that A/2017 U1 object, the interstellar comet, I have read, or listened to as I prefer, Arthur C Clarke’s novel Rama. It is written in 1975 and takes place in the 22nd century. To set the stage without revealing anything beyond the intro, Earth has been hit by a regionally devastating asteroid and has since gone big on impact prevention space flight. One day an interstellar “asteroid” is discovered and all available resources are scrambled to make a crewed rendezvous with it. And the story goes from there on.
Variable gravity and the centrifugal effect with Coriolis effects are subjects explored in this novel. A funny detail is that the mission uses genetically engineered monkeys as co-astronauts for routine tasks. The long tails make them very graceful in microgravity. :-) But it is without new physics stuff.
I didn’t notice much of a character development or even any point with the plot. (Hence it didn’t turn into a movie). But it is well written for getting captured by it. And Clarke’s technical focus should appeal us nerds here.
Free audio book reading on Youtube (It’s a bit more than 7 hours, then the recording starts over):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md8YwSuaZS0