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

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🗓️ 6 January 2024

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8/8: 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.

1968 Houston Mission Control

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flight to another world. Two and a half hours after the TV broadcast reading from

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Genesis is the trans-Earth injection. What is that Bob? This is where we get to the

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lack of redundancy on the STS engine. This is the moment

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Susan Borman dreaded the most. They're in lunar orbit. They've got to fire the

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SPS engine on the service module to speed up, leave lunar orbit and head back to Earth. There is no

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redundancy on the SPS engine. If it doesn't work, they're stuck in lunar

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