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1/2: #Apollo8: #HotelMars: Winning the Moon Race, December 1968. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com, David Livingston SpaceShow.com

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 6 December 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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1/2: #Apollo8: #HotelMars: Winning the Moon Race, December 1968. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com, David Livingston SpaceShow.com
Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8: The First Manned Mission to Another World Audible Audiobook – Unabridged
Robert Zimmerman (Author), Grover Gardner (Narrator), & 1 more
https://www.amazon.com/Genesis-Apollo-Manned-Mission-Another/dp/B07FD3KPRG/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

1968 Apollo 8

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0:00.0

Looking for keys, looking for keys, looking for keys.

0:10.0

Everyone's tired of looking for keys.

0:14.0

So the Honda HRV hybrid can be unlocked

0:18.0

and turned on

0:21.0

with your phone.

0:25.0

while we're listening take us next,

0:27.0

under the power of dreams. See CBSi on the World, I'm John Bachelor.

0:38.0

Hotel Mars, episode N. David Livingston, my colleague and co-pilot, and we're very pleased to travel to the moon in time

0:47.8

with Bob Zimmerman, the author of Genesis, the story of Apollo 8, Christmas 1968, Christmas 2023, 55 years later.

0:57.0

The subtitle tells the story, The First Man Flight to Another World.

1:02.0

Bob, a very good evening to you.

1:03.8

Thank you for joining and 55 years ago,

1:07.7

the expectation at NASA was this mission

1:12.4

had a 50-50 chance of success.

1:15.0

How did they arrive at that number, Bob?

1:17.0

What does that mean for NASA's ability to take risks 55 years ago?

1:22.0

Good evening to you. Good evening to you.

1:24.0

Good evening, John.

1:25.0

Hello David, nice to be with you both again.

1:27.0

We talked many times together on the air.

1:31.0

It's actually a remarkable thing.

1:32.0

That 50-50 percentage was a number that was quoted to the wife of Frank

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