Fund-raising campaign celebrating Behind the Black’s 15th anniversary
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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 culture have a direct impact on the future of our civilization and its on-going efforts to explore and eventually colonize the solar system.
You can’t understand one without understanding the other.
Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black. Your help allows me to do this kind of intelligent independent analysis you don’t find elsewhere. I take no advertising or sponsors, so my reporting isn’t influenced by donations by established companies or political movements. 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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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.
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"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
Way back when, in the beginning of the space program, my father did research work with the original Mercury 7 astronauts, at Johnsville Navy Air station, located outside of Philadelphia. He also did work with them in New Groton Conn.
This period of time was very exciting for me, and I got to meed the astronauts, and often went to Johnville NAS with hi.
I have tried to locate any information on what was going on there, or even if any research did go on there.
Can you direct me to any sources about that period of time, and that location?
Thank you!
George Dietz: See this web article:
Godspeed, John Glenn
Describes the centrifuge used at Johnsville to train the astronauts to deal with high g’s during launch.
There’s more on the web. See also this article: Spinning Out Heroes: The Johnsville Centrifuge