This is CBSI on the world.

I'm John Batchel.

Behind the Black.

The fundraising at holiday time for Behind the Black,

your generosity, subscriptions or donations.

In addition, Bob is making available Genesis 8.

His story of the success of 1968 after a very bad year.

Those of us who were there remember the bad parts, but then there was this risk that NASA took to send human beings from our planet to another planet for the first time ever.

Apollo 8 circumnavigated the moon and came home. That was a celebration that

offset the bad year behind us of war and turmoil and election. However, I learned from Bob that

there's reason to celebrate again because there's more risk coming. So $200 get you an autographed copy

of Bob's paperback, $250 for the hardback to celebrate 68 and look to 24, much in 24. But we've got

good things to say about 24 as well. Starship, always happy. What's Starship done, Bob?

SpaceX is building its starship super heavy, heavy-lets-the-rocket. It would be more powerful than the

Saturn 5, but completely reusable. That Starship upper stage is also NASA's planned, one of NASA's

planned manned lunar landers for its Artemis program.

So, SpaceX is building one of the lunar landers, so is Blue Origin.

NASA also has contracts with private companies to build manned rovers for the moon.

These would be much more sophisticated than man rovers.

The rovers that the astronauts in Apollo used to drive around the lunar

surface, these would be enclosed, so you wouldn't have to wear a spacesuit on the inside,

like cars, except sealed.

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