Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8 (63 page)

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Authors: Robert Zimmerman

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14. Aldrin, 239240.
15. Chaikin, 204.
16. http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/frame.html; click on ''Post-Landing Activities" and go to 105:26:08.
17. Chaikin, 204206.
18. Frank Borman notes in his book
Countdown
, pp. 237238, that Nixon rejected remarks proposed by NASA that would have made it sound as if his "administration was responsible for Apollo 11's success and most of the technological achievements that preceded the flights." Instead he said words that were "appropriate, brief, and [didn't upstage] the Apollo 11 crew." Nonetheless, Nixon did speak, setting a precedent that has since turned almost every space mission into a political photo-op.
19.
New York Times
, 3/18/69, 44.
20.
New York Times
, 5/20/69, 1.
21.
New York Times
, 12/28/68, 47.
22. "People's Science" in
Science for the People
, February, 1971, 3:1, 12, 1420.
23. Borman, 236.
24. Borman, 234236.
25. Gitlin, 431.
26. Gitlin, 422.

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