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BEFORE MARS COLONY: SOLVING THE EARTH-MOON SYSTEM FOR A MOON BASE: 2/8: Genesis: The Story Of Apollo 8 Paperback – by Robert Zimmerman (Author)

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🗓️ 12 January 2025

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BEFORE MARS COLONY: SOLVING THE EARTH-MOON SYSTEM FOR A MOON BASE:  2/8: 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
1868 "FROM EARTH TO THE MOON" JULES VERNE

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I'm John Bachelor. 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 that was Apollo is now. It's in Boca, Texas. It's around the world at all the new space ports. That's where Apollo 8 is. But we need to go through the details because in 1968 there was a war on and it was a global war. It was called the Cold War. And events had built up to both sides thinking apocalyptic about the other.

1:13.2

And then there was the NASA program.

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NASA was meant to get to the moon,

1:18.7

thanks to a speech by President Kennedy,

1:21.2

early in his time in office,

1:25.0

assigning the task to his Vice President Lyndon Johnson.

1:31.3

We now are at the moment where both sides believe they've prepared everything for a circumlunar mission or even a moon landing eventually. It is late

1:37.7

1968. We need to introduce the three men who will be the astronauts on board Apollo 8 because they come from a background of

1:48.2

war. Frank Borman, William Anders, and Jim Lovell. Let's meet the two oldest first, Borman and

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Lovell. Frank Borman is a phenomenon, Bob. He's a West Point graduate eventually, and they make fun of him as a ground

2:02.4

pounder. I note that his parents moved him to the southwest because he had asthma early on.

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