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4/8: Genesis: The Story Of Apollo 8 Paperback – by Robert Zimmerman (Author)

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🗓️ 5 January 2024

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4/8: Genesis: The Story Of Apollo 8 Paperback – by Robert Zimmerman (Author)
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1968 APOLLO 8

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Terms of apply, I see 1 Peloton.co. UK. I'm John Bachelors my colleague Bob Zimmerman. His book is Genesis, the story of Apollo 8,

0:40.4

the first man flight to another world. It is December of 1968. The mechanics of

0:47.5

launch give them a six-day window. And what does that mean Bob, six day window?

0:53.0

It means they can launch within that six day period and do their mission.

0:58.0

The moon and the earth is the same, is in the right position to do so.

1:02.0

They were fortunate, they were no delays, they launched at the very first opening of the window and launched on December 21st on their way into Earth orbit.

1:12.4

And then they spent about one... on their way into Earth orbit.

1:12.7

And then they spent about one full orbit in Earth orbit

1:16.9

testing their systems out to make sure everything was working

1:20.0

because they didn't want to leave Earth Orbit unless they knew everything was okay.

1:23.6

And then once they had done that and they reached the point in the Earth Orbit where it was

1:28.3

time to fire the upper stage Saturn engines that would power them to the moon, they got the go-ahead from

1:36.0

Capcom, that's the guy who talks to them from the ground and in this case it

1:39.6

happened to be, it's always an astronaut, in this case it happened to be Mike Collins who was the

1:44.4

on the Apollo 11 mission that was to follow and Mike Collins said to them your

1:48.4

goal for T. L. I is trans lunar injection that's the technical term they gave to that firing of that engine.

1:55.0

So the astronauts fired the engine and for the first time in all missions that have been sent with people into space.

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