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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. Page i Genesis The Story of Apollo 8: The First Manned Flight to Another World Page ii Page iii 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. Page v 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. Page vii 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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