![]() "Not simply about one mission, is also the history of America's quest for the moon. The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. 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. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. The series begins airing tonight, and will continue for the next two weeks. Episode #4 will focus on the history I outline in my new book, Conscious Choice: The origins of slavery in America and why it matters today and for our future in outer space. Scott asked me to be one of his guests, which also include Robert Zubrin, Glenn Reynolds, Rand Simberg. To find the answer, History Unplugged is interviewing historians, scientists, and futurists who have spent decades researching this question by looking at the past to understand the future. How will the Age of Discovery 2.0 change our civilization the way the first one did five centuries ago? In a few decades, the Moon, Mars, and other planetary bodies will be as accessible to humans as the New World was in the Age of Sail. With Elon Musk promising rocket launch costs at $200/kilo (one percent of the Space Shuttle’s launch costs, with much lower costs to come), the price of sending explorers to space will soon match the cost of a ticket on the Mayflower in 1620. Today, an Age of Discovery 2.0 is upon us. Because of the Age of Discovery, for the first time in generations, Western Civilization had hope in the future. Above all, anyone willing to brave the dangers of traveling and settling in the New World could seek their fortune, bypassing whatever their birth status was in Europe’s rigid social hierarchy. At the same time, printing presses spread new ideas about science, religion, and technology. New wealth flowed into European capitals. Trade routes to Africa, India, and China opened. It had nothing to look forward to but Judgment Day.īut with Columbus’s discovery of the New World, the West was reborn. Chroniclers saw it as living in a long twilight, far removed from its golden age. Compared to its richer, more educated, and far more powerful rivals in the East, Europe was the Third World of the late medieval era. Constantinople, Greece, Serbia, and the Crimea had all fallen to the Ottomans in the 15th century. Before then, Europe was an economic and military weakling that had suffered centuries of defeat from Islamic empires. No era transformed Western Civilization like the Age of Discovery. The podcast, History Unplugged, created by Scott Rank from the History on the Web webpage, has put together a six part podcast called The Age of Discovery 2.0 with the goal of exploring how today’s new effort to colonize the solar system can learn from the first age of discovery that began when Columbus discovered the New World in 1492. History Unplugged – The Age of Discovery 2.0 Donate by check, payable to Robert Zimmerman and mailed to Patreon: Go to my website there and pick one of five monthly subscription amounts, or by making a one-time donation.ĥ. All you have to do is use the Zelle link at your internet bank and give my name and email address (zimmerman at nasw dot org). Zelle: This is the only internet method that charges no fees. You can still donate or subscribe to support my work if you wish, either by giving a one-time contribution or a regular subscription. It is difficult to explain what your support means to me. Thank you again to everyone who has who donated or subscribed. This was the second most successful monthly fund-raising campaign ever. My July fund-raising campaign, celebrating the 13th anniversary of the start of this website, has now ended.
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