Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8: The First Manned Flight to Another World

600 Pages·1998·3.7 MB·English

by  Robert Zimmerman

Genesis : The Story of Apollo 8 : the First
title:
Manned Flight to Another World
author: Zimmerman, Robert.
publisher: Four Walls Eight Windows
isbn10 | asin: 1568581181
print isbn13: 9781568581187
ebook isbn13: 9780585320779
language: English
subject Project Apollo (U.S.) , Space flight to the moon.
publication date: 1998
lcc: TL789.8.U6A5285 1998eb
ddc: 629.45/4/0973
subject: Project Apollo (U.S.) , Space flight to the moon.
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Genesis
The Story of Apollo 8: The First Manned Flight to Another
World
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Genesis
The Story of Apollo 8: The First Manned Flight to Another
World
By Robert Zimmerman
Four Walls Eight Windows
New York/London
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© 1998 Robert Zimmerman
Published in the United States by:
Four Walls Eight Windows
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First printing September 1998.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a data base or
other retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, by any means, including
mechanical, electronic, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior
written permission of the publisher.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Zimmerman, Robert.
Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8: The First Manned Flight to Another World/ by Robert
Zimmerman.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-56858-118-1 1.
Project Apollo (U.S.) 2. Space flight to the moon. I. Title.
TL789.8.U6A5285 1998
629.45'4'0973dc21 98-29963
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Text design by Acme Art, Inc. Printed in Canada
Front Cover: This is Bill Anders's famous photograph of the first earthrise ever
witnessed by humans, December 24, 1968, possibly one of the most reprinted lunar
photos ever taken. If you turn the book sideways so that the moon's horizon is on the
bottom, the picture will probably then look familiar, as this is how every publisher
since 1968 has presented it. At Bill Anders's home, however, it is framed with the
moon's horizon on the right. "That's how I took it," he says. To Anders, floating in
zero gravity, the earth wasn't rising from behind an horizon line (which is how a
human living on a planet's surface would perceive it). Instead, floating in a space
capsule seventy miles above the moon, Anders saw himself circling the moon's
equator. The lunar horizon therefore appeared vertical to him, and the earth moved
right to left as it came out from behind the moon.
Title Page: The second earthrise ever witnessed by humans, framed by the command
module window frame.
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To the memory of my uncle, Abraham Spinak,
who never stopped looking up.
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Special Acknowledgements
Without the help, assistance, and support of the following people I could not
have written this book: Frank and Susan Borman, Jim and Marilyn Lovell,
Bill and Valerie Anders, my publisher John Oakes, Peter Brown, Steve Martin
Cohen, Barbara Jaye Wilson, Peter Stathatos, Bob Moore, Jon Zimmerman
and his family, and of course, my parents, who made both me and my book
possible.
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Table of Contents
Introduction xi
Timeline xv
1. "Get a Picture of It." 1
2. "We Will Bury You." 21
Borman
Lovell
Anders
Khrushchev
3. "That Earth Is Sure Looking Small." 49
4. "We Stand for Freedom." 71
Berlin
Kennedy
Houston
Berlin
5. "Welcome to the Moon's Sphere." 91
6. Hugging the Coast 103
Khrushchev
Gemini
Gregory
Berlin
7. "Hey, I Got the Moon!" 127