6/8: Genesis: The Story Of Apollo 8 Paperback – by Robert Zimmerman (Author)
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🗓️ 6 January 2024
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6/8: Genesis: The Story Of Apollo 8 Paperback – by Robert Zimmerman (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Genesis-Story-Apollo-Robert-Zimmerman/dp/0440235561
The story of Apollo 8, the first manned vehicle to leave earth orbit and circle round the moon, is told in vivid detail, focusing on the mission's historical, scientific, and media importance. Reprint.
1972 Jules Verne "Around the Moon"
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| 0:29.2 | T's and sees apply. I'm John Bachelor with Bob Zimmerman. His book is Genesis, the story of Apollo 8, the first man flight to another world. |
| 0:40.0 | We've been hurrying with NASA to lunar orbit. We pause now because this is taking place |
| 0:47.6 | inside the Cold War, which for those of us who live through it was massive. |
| 0:53.0 | Every moment there was the possibility of nuclear weapons exchanges. |
| 0:57.7 | In fact, there were many instances during the Cold War where accidents could have led to |
| 1:02.1 | catastrophe that we can only speculate about now. |
| 1:06.6 | At the same time, Bob, throughout his story, relates ongoing crises that very much are backdrops to NASA's striving to reach the |
| 1:17.2 | Moon. Remember it was a mission set by Jack Kennedy who dies tragically |
| 1:21.8 | involved in the fantasies of a young man who had defected |
| 1:27.0 | to the Soviet Union and then pretended to be either anti-Cuban or pro-Cubin and Kennedy's mission was passed off to Linden Johnson. |
| 1:37.0 | Linden Johnson applies himself, builds the Houston Man Space Program and continues at the same time to involve the US in the |
| 1:45.6 | Vietnam War, their civil rights at home, and the Berlin crisis which he inherited |
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