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Visit gSK.com to learn more. I'm John Batscher with David Livingston, my colleague and co-host and we're with Bob Zimmerman,

our good colleague and we're reviewing Bob's book Genesis, The Story of Apollo 8, 55 years ago, Christmas

time. The launch from Earth orbit emphasized, this is the first time men in a machine built by men are going to leave Earth

orbit.

Bob, your storytelling is vivid at this point because they're looking through the

portals at Earth as it's receding.

Can you recount quickly their understanding of what they were then doing when they saw the earth

getting smaller and smaller.

Jim Lovell is the one whose sayings are the most famous,

mostly because it was his job to talk to the ground control during the hour or so after they fired

their rocket engine, their upper stage engine in Earth orbit and left Earth orbit heading to the moon.

And he talked about how we could see the entire Atlantic,

including Africa and South America and the United States in one shot. He said he could put his thumb across the entire

earth he also said it was kind of like being in a tunnel watching the bright

exit of the tunnel it'seding from you because the only thing that was bright or

colorful anywhere to be seen in the sky was the earth and that was bright and as it moved away and got smaller, it receded from it.

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