THE NEW MOON RACE WITH MANY ENTRANTS: 7/8: Genesis: The Story Of Apollo 8 Paperback – by Robert Zimmerman (Author)
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
THE NEW MOON RACE WITH MANY ENTRANTS: 7/8: 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.
1900
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 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. Wish you were here. Follow the price of Paradise Now wherever |
| 0:26.7 | you listen to podcasts. I'm John Bachelor with Bob Zimmerman. The book is Genesis, the story of Apollo 8, the first man flight to another world. |
| 0:37.0 | Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders on board Apollo 8 going round and round the moon a little |
| 0:44.5 | disappointing but they're taking photographs that are spectacular one of |
| 0:47.8 | Earthrise that you've all seen on stamps you see it everywhere it's's so commonplace. There's a small debate about who took |
| 0:56.0 | what photograph. Bob settles it by saying one was in color and one was in black and white. |
| 1:01.2 | Which is which, Bob, I can't remember? Yes, during the moment |
| 1:05.2 | when the Earth rises occurring, there was multiple Earth rises, but this one they happened to be looking |
| 1:09.8 | right at the Earth coming up because of issues with controlling the capsule. |
| 1:15.2 | So they all saw the earth coming up and they suddenly realized that the camera program |
| 1:19.2 | didn't include getting an earth rise. |
| 1:20.9 | So they scrambled to get a picture picture and the camera at the moment had |
| 1:24.3 | black and white film in it and this was in charge of taking pictures |
| 1:28.3 | Bill blooming grabs the camera and takes a quick black and white picture and |
| 1:32.3 | it says there was a little |
| 1:33.8 | friction between the two of them about who's in control and it says hey I'm supposed to do |
| 1:37.8 | that so they quickly scramble to get color in the pictures to film into the |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from John Batchelor, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of John Batchelor and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

