Posted on February 11, 2016
“…our building’s shaking here. Our building’s shaking! Oh it’s terrific, the building’s shaking! This big blast window is shaking! We’re holding it with our hands! Look at that rocket go into the clouds at 3000 feet!…you can see it…you can see it…oh ...
6-A crescent Earth, as photographed from Apollo 4
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4-Apollo 4 unmanned mission lifts off from launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center
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Posted on May 19, 2016
Perhaps the most significant point about the lunar-orbit flight proposed for Apollo 8 was that the command and service modules would fly the same route to the moon as would be used for the actual lunar landing.
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