Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island?

Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the

tropics.

But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.

I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,

the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder. Wish you were here. Follow the price of Paradise Now wherever

you listen to podcasts. I'm John Bachelors with my colleague Bob Zimmerman. His book is Genesis, the story of Apollo

8, the first man flight to another world. It is December of 1968. The mechanics of

launch give them a six-day window. And what does that mean Bob, six-day window?

It means they can launch within that six-day period and do their mission.

The moon and the earth is the same, is in the right position to do so.

They were fortunate. They were no delays, they launched

at the very first opening of the window and launched on December 21st on their way into Earth

orbit. And then they spent about not uh... one full

orbit in earth orbit testing their systems out to make sure everything was

working

because they didn't want to leave earth orbit unless they knew everything was okay.

And then once they had done that and they reached the point in the Earth orbit where it was

time to fire the upper stage Saturn engines that would power them to the moon, they got the go-ahead from

Capcom, that's the guy who talks to them from the ground and in this case it

happened to be, it's always an astronaut, in this case it happened to be Mike Collins who was on the Apollo 11 mission that was to follow.

And Mike Collins said to them, your goal for T.L.I is trans lunar injection.

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