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...Borman pointed the TV camera at the lunar surface unfolding below, Lovell and Anders continued their guided tour of the moon...
...entire presentation was appropriate for the men of the Apollo 8 crew. Flying in the wake of Apollo 7, with the irrepressible Walter Schirra and his rollicking "Wally, Walt and Donn Show," they seemed as staid and businesslike as a group of corporate executives. Borman, Lovell and Anders are deadly serious men, cool under pressure and addicted to speech filled with space jargon. Borman, 40, is a lay reader of the Episcopal Church, and during the Apollo 8 mission read a prayer addressed to "the people of St. Christopher's [his church], actually to people everywhere." He also inspired...
Finally, each of the Apollo 8 men has an intense sense of mission and purpose, and has demonstrated courageous stubbornness. When the engine of an F-104 that Borman was piloting blew up in flight, instead of bailing out, Borman, flying at twice the speed of sound, stayed in the plane, got the explosive engine started again, and coaxed enough thrust to make a safe landing...
Spacecraft Commander Borman acknowledged in equally unmemorable style: "O.K., Apollo...
Then, after a terse "Roger" from Borman, all was silent. Apollo would be behind the moon and out of contact for 45 minutes. Until it emerged, no one on earth would know if the SPS engine had fired on schedule (25 minutes after LOS) or fired long enough to place the craft in orbit. Too short a burn, the controllers knew, could send Apollo smashing into the moon. But there was another problem that caused concern on the ground. Apollo's third-stage S-4B rocket, jettisoned shortly after it pushed the spacecraft out of earth orbit and toward...