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[i]Spacecraft commander Borman acknowledged in equally unmemorable style: "O.K., Apollo 8 is go." "You are riding the best bird we can find," Carr assured the astronauts. "Two minutes and 50 seconds away from time of loss of signal," Commentator John McLeaish reported, as Apollo began to curve around the back side of the moon, where its radio communication with earth would be blocked. "Here in mission control we're standing by with certainly a great deal of anxiety at this moment." "Shortly after liftoff, John McLeaish, a public affairs officer at Mission Control in Houston, announced, "Space shuttle Challenger has delivered to space the largest human payload of all time — four men, one woman.'"[/i]
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