Fwd: [New post] “Launch Commit” – The Voyage of Apollo 8: Part 1

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Date: December 15, 2012 5:00:32 AM GMT-06:00
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Subject: [New post] "Launch Commit" – The Voyage of Apollo 8: Part 1

Ben Evans posted: "[caption id="attachment_28342" align="aligncenter" width="446"] Watched by a global audience of millions, and seemingly also by a crescent Moon, the first Saturn V ever trusted with human passengers takes flight on the morning of 21 December 1968. Photo C" New post on AmericaSpace "Launch Commit" – The Voyage of Apollo 8: Part 1 by Ben Evans Since July 1969, astronaut Mike Collins has achieved fame as 'the other one' on the first lunar landing crew. A year before making that momentous flight, he might have been aboard Apollo 9, shoulder to shoulder with fellow astronauts Frank Borman and Bill Anders, to perform a high-Earth-orbit test of the Moonship's command, service, and [...] Read more of this post Ben Evans | December 15, 2012 at 6:00 am | Tags: Apollo, Apollo 8, Apollo 9, Astronaut, Bill Anders, Buzz Aldrin, C-Prime, Cape Canaveral, Charles Lindbergh, Deke Slayton, Exploration, Explore, F-1 Engine, Frank Borman, Fred Haise, Human Space Flight, Jack King, Jim Lovell, Lunar, Lyndon Johnson, Mike Collins, Moon, NASA, Neil Armstrong, rocket, Rockets, S-IC, S-II, S-IVB, Saturn V, Space, space exploration, TLI, Trans-Lunar Injection | Categories: Apollo, Ben Evans, Moon, NASA | URL: http://wp.me/p1YCNG-7m6 Comment    See all comments Unsubscribe or change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://www.americaspace.org/?p=28278