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Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8

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title
:
Genesis : The Story of Apollo 8 : the First 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.
Page i
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

 

Page iv
© 1998 Robert Zimmerman
Published in the United States by:
Four Walls Eight Windows
39 West 14th Street, room 503
New York, N.Y., 10011
U.K. offices:
Four Walls Eight Windows/Turnaround
Unit 3, Olympia Trading Estate
Coburg Road, Wood Green
London N22 6TZ, England
Visit our website at http://www.fourwallseightwindows.com
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
                                                                                      CIP
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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.

 

Page vi
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
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