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Authors: Robert Zimmerman

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

Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8 (48 page)

 

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settle down on those barren hills that Frank Borman called "not a very inviting place to live and work." And when we do, we had better consider the social order that we establish. The Cold War might be over, but it was only a small episode in the never-ending struggle between freedom and tyranny, a battle that began when the first bully found he could use a club to make others do what he wanted.
The Pilgrims came to the New World to escape just such a bully. And though they made their own transgressions in time, they managed to consciously and carefully establish a good social order, leading to some spectacular and glorious results.
We should do no less when we reach for our own new worlds, out there amid the stars.

 

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Notes
Introduction
1. Hoyle, pp. 910.
2.
National Geographic,
2/98, 44
3. Gagarin, 193
4. Julian Scheer interview, 10/23/97
Chapter One
1. Clarke, 161
2.
Orlando Evening Star,
12/21/68
3. Chaikin, 116
4.
La Mesa Scout,
1/2/68, 1
5. Borman, 197198
6. Borman, 297; Aldrin, 123
7. Both Andrew Chaikin's
A Man on the Moon
and the hardback edition of Lovell's
Lost Moon
describe how Susan expressed anger at Kraft because of NASA's decision to send Apollo 8 to the moon. According to Susan Borman, this is incorrect. "I was never angry," she explained to me. She told Kraft how she was sure the men would die in lunar orbit, and he tried (and failed) to reassure her.
8. Borman, 66
9. Borman, 303304

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