Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8 (104 page)

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Authors: Robert Zimmerman

Tags: #History, #United States, #20th Century, #test

service module, 51, 230, 279
Service Propulsion System.
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S.P.S.

 

Page 298
Shepard, Alan, 75
Slayton, Deke, 144, 146, 186
Soviet space program
automated control systems, 151, 236-37
competition with U.S., xiv-xv, 46-48, 104-5, 151, 241-42
cosmonaut's deaths, 152
goals, 237
Luna missions, 47, 132, 161, 164
lunar orbit missions, 132, 161, 164, 185, 193, 195
manned flights, 75, 86-87, 88, 194-95
Mir
space station, 264
moon landing as goal, 105, 237
reaction to Apollo 8, 236-37
rendezvous planned, 150, 195

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