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

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But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.

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you listen to podcasts. I'm John Bachelor with Bob Zimmerman. His book is Genesis, The Story of Apollo 8, The First Man

Fly to Another World. Two and a half hours after the TV broadcast reading from Genesis is

the Trans-Earth Injection. has reading from Genesis is the trans earth injection. What is that Bob?

This is where we get to the lack of redundancy on the SPS engine.

This is the moment Susan Borman dreaded the most.

They're in lunar orbit.

They've got to fire the SPS engine on the service module to speed up, leave

lunar orbit, and head back to Earth.

There is no redundancy on the SPS engine.

If it doesn't work, they're stuck in lunar orbit

and they're gonna die there.

It would just imagine science fiction of the ultimate.

They would be run out of air. And and of course they knew that if that was going to happen they could just open the hatch and die quickly but even way they would die so it had to work and it was like going into little orbit as well.

The burn of that engine would occur on the back side,

when the orbit was on the back side of the moon,

which means no communications with the Earth.

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