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Usually in the hours before Christmas, the nation's stores are overwhelmed with harried shoppers buying last-minute gifts: books and pearl necklaces and even Uggs, those ubiquitous suede boots. On Tuesday, however, New Orleans' largest shopping mall was eerily empty. There was hardly a soul inside Saks Fifth Avenue...
But Apollo 8 did go. On the morning of Saturday, Dec. 21, 1968, the crew blasted off aboard the 36-story, seven-million-pound Saturn V rocket into Earth orbit. Five hours later, the crew fired the Saturn's upper stage engine and Apollo 8 peeled out for the moon...
But on Christmas Eve the crew got busy. Settling Apollo 8 into orbit around the moon was a high-wire maneuver that involved turning the ship backward and firing its powerful service propulsion engine for precisely four and a half minutes - an eternity in a business in which barely a...
The crew circled the moon 10 times over the next 20 hours. On their final orbit, once again alone behind the moon, the crew re-lit the engine that was their only ticket home. If it had failed to burn, they would have been stranded forever in lunar orbit. The...
In the case, the FBI used two informants to record hundreds of hours of conversations with the men, all of whom were foreign-born Muslims raised in and around Cherry Hill, N.J. The first informant, Mahmoud Omar, was an Egyptian who had pleaded guilty to fraud in 2001. The U.S...