THE NEW MOON RACE WITH MANY ENTRANTS: 2/8: Genesis: The Story Of Apollo 8 Paperback – by Robert Zimmerman (Author)
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🗓️ 21 April 2024
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THE NEW MOON RACE WITH MANY ENTRANTS: 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.
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island? |
| 0:04.0 | Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the |
| 0:09.1 | tropics. |
| 0:10.1 | But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets. |
| 0:13.4 | I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise, |
| 0:18.0 | the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder. |
| 0:23.0 | Wish you were here. |
| 0:24.0 | Follow the price of the story of Apollo |
| 0:40.6 | A Genesis, the first man flight to another world. It is January 1967. |
| 0:47.0 | Apollo 1 is on the launch pad being checked out by three senior astronauts and then Bob this |
| 0:55.9 | catastrophe is easy to remember for all of us who were watching at the time because it |
| 1:01.3 | was a blow to NASA it was a blow to NASA. It was a blow that had not been expected. |
| 1:06.2 | They weren't actually blasting off. What happened, Bob, in Apollo 1? |
| 1:11.1 | It's interesting, John, but this was a case where they were not careful and that's why the failure happened |
| 1:19.0 | This was a launch pad dress rehearsal countdown |
| 1:23.4 | The three astronauts Gus Gus Chris from the commander, Ed White, who was also an experienced |
| 1:28.4 | astronaut he had done the first space, the American space walk, and Roger Chaffee, who |
| 1:32.4 | had never flown in space before, these guys were in the capsule in their spacesuits and they were doing with mission control the equivalent of a dresser |
| 1:39.2 | Council countdown preparing for the first Apollo mission on manned mission in orbit, hopefully in 67. |
| 1:48.0 | And at some point there was a spark in the capsule and within less than a minute and a half those three men burned to death. |
| 1:56.2 | Suffocated mostly was the oxygen burned and there was no it would be he killed them as well as the lack of oxygen. |
| 2:01.6 | They were dead within 75 seconds. And at that moment in time, |
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