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Forum:	Mercury - Gemini - Apollo
Topic:	Apollo 8: Decision to go for lunar orbit

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Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by Robert Pearlman: [B] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Delta7: [b]I wonder how much the CIA reports of the Soviets planning a manned circumlunar mission, presumably before the U.S. could fly a manned lunar mission, actually factored into this decision.[/b][/QUOTE] Dwayne Day has [URL=http://www.thespacereview.com/article/878/1]written on this subject[/URL] in connection with the release of intelligence reports. <BLOCKQUOTE>[i]The major outstanding question of the influence of intelligence collection on the Moon race is the extent that intelligence information on the Soviet Zond circumlunar missions prompted NASA officials to make the Apollo 8 decision. To date, the evidence supports the conclusion that although the Zond program was a factor in the Apollo decision, it was a supporting factor, not the decisive one. Apollo was already going flat out, balls to the wall, within the limits of safety. NASA officials were moving as fast as they could and were less concerned with looking over their shoulder than in maintaining control of a massive bureaucratic machine that they were pushing to its limits. The Apollo 8 lunar module was not ready for its test flight, and NASA officials were unwilling to delay the mission in order to wait for the lander. They decided to send the astronauts around the Moon rather than simply into Earth orbit.[/i]</BLOCKQUOTE> [/B][/QUOTE]
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