posted 04-04-2014 04:38 PM               

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Originally posted by Gilbert:
Your TV interview is cool and informative. I almost ordered another copy I got so pumped up.

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I have been getting an amazing response to the interview, from all corners of the country. It was a heck of a lot of fun to do. I love that they also included David's perspective on the written Q&A for the website -- he had a lot of great things to say, too, and it really balances the piece off to have perspective from both authors. It was a nice approach.

posted 04-15-2014 05:42 AM               

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Originally posted by fredtrav:
I was surprised as I was driving to hear a promo about Marketing the Moon and stayed in to listen.

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posted 04-15-2014 02:13 PM               

The legacy of Apollo... is our ability to achieve if we all focus on a common goal.

Are we going to harness that power to solve the biggest problems of our time?

posted 04-16-2014 01:09 PM               

It's finally been written, how a bunch of government-types who never worked for the government managed to market and create a brand known as NASA with the mission, "We choose to go to the moon," and we did. Twenty-four American astronauts flew from Planet Earth to the moon and twelve astronauts walked on the moon. It was done with the press and everyone watching around the world.

A new book entitled, "Marketing the Moon," by David Meerman Scott and Richard Jurek is just out and it is a must read for all who followed manned space flight in the 60's and 70's. Journalism students who missed that era might want to download it between classes.

Little did we know that this governmental agency — NASA — would create a relationship with the press that has not been matched, certainly not by another government agency. We in NASA operated within the statute of an agency that "must provide the widest possible dissemination of information to the public."

At times it was a struggle to convince engineers who ran the agency, that we must be transparent, we were not a skunk works nor a black-ops program. NASA was different. Many thought NASA was not a part of government but a bunch of nerds taking us on fabulous journeys into space. We had a saying, "late to bed early to rise, work like hell and advertise!" Marketing of Apollo may be the only marketing effort remembered of our generation. It was epic.

Having worked for Wernher von Braun, at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, I can assure you he never turned down a request from the press. In 1968, Richard Lewis, Chicago Sun Times science writer, was invited to witness a Saturn static test firing. When informed he was coming von Braun said, "a very nice constructive man. I would like to meet him." Von Braun was a PR man's dream.

Houston had the astronauts but Huntsville had Wernher von Braun. And that made all the difference.

Ed Buckbee, an author, lecturer and historian, has been associated with the U.S. missile and space programs for five decades. Buckbee began his career in 1959 as a U.S. Army officer at the Army Ordnance Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal. Al. and later, joined NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center as a public affairs official. He is director emeritus of the U.S. Space & Rocket Center and founder of U.S. Space Camp. Buckbee worked with the von Braun team for fifteen years. As the Space Center's first director and curator, he established the Wernher von Braun collection and has collaborated extensively with historians in the U.S. and abroad. Buckbee is widely known in the U.S. as an advocate of human spaceflight.

posted 04-23-2014 07:35 PM               

MIT Press has just announced a limited time 30% off sale of newly released titles, including Marketing the Moon. That's a few percentage points cheaper than the current 28% discount on Amazon.

If you want to order Marketing the Moon directly from The MIT Press, all you have to do is enter the following discount code number at checkout: 42314

posted 04-23-2014 07:44 PM               

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Originally posted by rjurek349:
I did a half hour television show for public television in Southern Illinois called "In Focus" that will air tomorrow at 9:30 pm.

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posted 05-25-2014 10:19 AM               

Inside - is a limited edition plate signed by the two authors and Gene Cernan all in matching pen. To think that you actually get the limited edition version with the authors' and "The Last Man on the Moon's" signatures expertly shipped to your house for $5 less than the price of a signature of Gene at either Spacefest or the ASF show is really amazing.

The book has been expertly reviewed several times. I personally found our brethren cS'ers — now authors — keen insight of the hither-to unknown PR side of the Apollo story makes for a most fascinating and illuminating read.