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3/8: Genesis: The Story Of Apollo 8 Paperback – by Robert Zimmerman (Author)

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🗓️ 5 January 2024

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3/8: Genesis: The Story Of Apollo 8 Paperback – by Robert Zimmerman (Author)
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1968 APOLLO 8

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Embracing the icy crisp winter air, warming your hands with the Starbucks,

0:06.7

wrapping up in snugly layers upon layers.

0:09.2

The signs are all there.

0:11.2

You're entering your cozy era.

0:13.0

And there's nothing cozier than the limited edition Starbuckle oat latte.

0:18.0

A new smooth and warming twist on a classic.

0:21.0

Whatever era you're in, find your perfect order in store on Starbucks

0:25.1

delivers and the Starbucks UK app, subject to availability while stocks last. This is a book from the late 20th century,

0:33.0

this is CBSi in the world. I'm John Bachelor.

0:38.0

Bob Zimmerman, his new book, Genesis, is a book from the late 20th century but it's always fresh when you consider where the program

0:47.3

that was Apollo is now. It's in Pocchika Texas, it's around the world, at all the new spaceports.

0:53.2

That's where Apollo 8 is.

0:54.7

But we need to go through the details.

0:57.5

Because in 1968, there was a war on,

1:02.2

and it was a global war. It was called the Cold War and events

1:05.8

had built up to both sides thinking apocryptically about the other. And then

1:11.7

there was the NASA program. NASA was meant to get to the

1:15.6

moon thanks to a speech by President Kennedy early in his time in office, assigning the task to his Vice President Lyndon Johnson.

1:26.2

We now are at the moment where both sides believe they've prepared everything for a circumn lunar mission or even a moon landing

1:36.0

eventually.

1:37.4

It is late 1968.

1:39.4

We need to introduce the three men who will be the astronauts on board Apollo 8 because they come from a

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