{"id":16670,"date":"2018-08-31T11:45:28","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T15:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16670"},"modified":"2018-08-31T11:45:28","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T15:45:28","slug":"listen-to-the-story-of-apollo-8-when-humans-first-left-earth-and-orbited-another-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16670","title":{"rendered":"Listen to the Story of Apollo 8, when humans first left earth and orbited another world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/behindtheblack.com\/behind-the-black\/essays-and-commentaries\/audiobook-of-genesis-the-story-of-apollo-8-now-available\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bob Zimmerman tells me<\/a> his book, <em>Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8<\/em>, which tells the dramatic history of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apollo_8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the first mission<\/a> to send humans beyond earth orbit, is now available as an\u00a0unabridged\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/genesisearthrise.com\/\"><span>audiobook<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 From the press release:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of one of mankind\u2019s boldest adventures, the first manned flight to another world. To mark the occasion, an audio version of the first book about the mission of Apollo 8 has been released, narrated by Grover Gardner, a legend in the ears of fans of audiobooks all over the planet.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Says Valerie Anders, wife of Apollo 8 crew member Bill Anders, \u201cWhen I first read this excellent account, published before the end of the space shuttle era, I was delighted.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Now, with the advent of high quality audio books and online merchants like iTunes and Audible, and the resonant and expressive voice of narrator Grover Garner, everyone can enjoy this recording of this pivotal moment in space history.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>While more recent books have been published on the mission of Apollo 8 (most of which rely heavily on Zimmerman\u2019s work), none has captured the impact the Apollo program had on the families of the astronauts nearly so well as \u201cGenesis \u2013 the story of Apollo 8.\u201d The new forward to \u201cGenesis,\u201d by Valerie Anders, contains a moving tribute to those pilots who never returned from their missions \u2013 not as faraway as the moon, but just as dangerous and far more frequent.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/genesisearthrise.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"16671\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=16671\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/514GST78eHL._SX342_1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"342,342\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/514GST78eHL._SX342_1-300x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/514GST78eHL._SX342_1.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16671\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/514GST78eHL._SX342_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"342\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/514GST78eHL._SX342_1.jpg 342w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/514GST78eHL._SX342_1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/514GST78eHL._SX342_1-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 342px) 100vw, 342px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">====<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ac&amp;ref=tf_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=hobbyspace&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B07FD3KPRG&amp;asins=B07FD3KPRG&amp;linkId=a95d397fddfcf89732bea932614d3e0f&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true&amp;price_color=333333&amp;title_color=0066c0&amp;bg_color=ffffff\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Zimmerman tells me his book, Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8, which tells the dramatic history of\u00a0the first mission to send humans beyond earth orbit, is now available as an\u00a0unabridged\u00a0audiobook.\u00a0 From the press release: This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of one of mankind\u2019s boldest adventures, the first manned flight to another world. To &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16670\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Listen to the Story of Apollo 8, when humans first left earth and orbited another world<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,43,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-space-books","category-the-moon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-4kS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17281,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=17281","url_meta":{"origin":16670,"position":0},"title":"Listening to &#8220;Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8&#8221;","author":"TopSpacer","date":"December 12, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"December 21st will mark the 50th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 8, the first time humans left earth orbit to reach another celestial object. 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