7/8: Genesis: The Story Of Apollo 8 Paperback – by Robert Zimmerman (Author)
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🗓️ 6 January 2024
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7/8: 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.
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| 0:00.0 | It started with a rainy day. I wanted to get the kids off the sofa and stop watching TV. |
| 0:07.0 | So I searched rainy day activities on Tik-Tock. There were loads of hacks on there, but the kids really liked making a bird feeder. |
| 0:15.0 | It's amazing what you can do with a milk carton and a handful of seeds. |
| 0:19.0 | We hung it outside the window and the birds loved it almost as much as the kids. |
| 0:24.0 | Who knew a bird box could be this entertaining? |
| 0:27.0 | It starts on Tik-Tok. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm John Bachelor with Bob Zimmerman. The book is Genesis, the story of Apollo 8, |
| 0:38.3 | the first man flight to another world. Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders on board Apollo 8th went round and round the moon. |
| 0:47.7 | A little disappointing, but they're taking photographs that are spectacular, one of Earthrise |
| 0:52.4 | that you've all seen on stamps. You see it everywhere. |
| 0:54.8 | It's so commonplace. There's a small debate about who took what photograph. Bob settles it by saying |
| 1:02.1 | one was in color and one was in black and white. |
| 1:04.4 | Which is which Bob I can't remember. |
| 1:06.4 | Yes, during the moment when the Earth rises occurring, there was multiple Earth rises, |
| 1:11.1 | but this one, they happen to be looking right at the earth |
| 1:13.7 | coming up because of issues with controlling the capsule so they all saw the |
| 1:18.9 | earth coming up and they suddenly realize that the camera program didn't |
| 1:22.1 | include getting an |
| 1:22.8 | earth rise so they scrambled to get a picture and the camera at the moment had |
| 1:26.9 | black and white film in it and this was in charge of taking pictures |
| 1:30.8 | Bill borman grabs the camera and takes a quick black and white picture. |
| 1:34.4 | And there was a little friction between the two of them about who's in control. |
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