Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight by Jay Barbree

Author:Jay Barbree
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3, pdf
ISBN: 9781466836341
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2014-07-08T00:00:00+00:00

With the moon closer to them than Earth, the astronauts had a crater-potted lunar surface staring them in the face. (NASA)

It was a splendid, epochal moment sixty-nine hours and fifteen minutes after launching from Earth, and when the rocket burn was completed, Apollo 8 had locked itself into lunar orbit.

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Mission Control only knew it should have happened, and the flight controllers continued their cliff-hanging suspense, counting the minutes and seconds before Apollo 8 would emerge from the other side of the moon.

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