PREVIEW: From a much longer conversation with Bob Zimmerman re his book on Apollo 8: how Jim Lovell described the receding Earth as the spacecraft blasted toward Lunar orbit, December 1968.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 6 December 2023
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:29.6 | Speaking with Bob Zimmerman, my longtime colleague about his book, Genesis, the story of Apollo 8, |
| 0:36.0 | this for a Hotel Mars episode with David Livingston, Dr. Space of the Space Show. |
| 0:41.0 | Bob speaks eloquently throughout his explication of the risk that the |
| 0:46.8 | astronauts took. This is December of 1968. This is the first time any human in a capsule of any fashion left the gravity of the Earth. |
| 0:59.1 | We've lived our time in space chiefly 850 miles or less around Earth but this was the moment when |
| 1:07.1 | they fired the rockets and pulled away from Earth's gravity and what Jim Lovell could see one of the three astronauts, Anders Lovell and Bormant. |
| 1:17.4 | What he could see through the window was the receding earth. |
| 1:20.8 | Here's Bob to explain what the Earth means to the astronauts as it gets |
| 1:26.6 | smaller and smaller and smaller on their way to the Moon. |
| 1:30.3 | Jim Lovell is the one whose's saying to the most famous mostly because it was his job to talk to the ground control during the hour or so after they fired their rocket engine, their upper stage engine in Earth orbit and left Earth orbit heading to the moon. |
| 1:48.0 | And he talked about how we could see the entire Atlantic, including Africa and South America and the United States in one shot. |
| 1:57.7 | He said he could put his thumb across the entire earth. |
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