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Topic: Photo of the week 734 (November 17, 2018)
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heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 11-16-2018 02:36 PM
   
 Half a century ago this week, Apollo 8 commander Frank Borman used some state-of-the-art audiovisual aids to explain the objectives of the mission during a press conference in Houston on November 16, 1968. |
oly
Member Posts: 905
From: Perth, Western Australia
Registered: Apr 2015
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posted 11-16-2018 07:20 PM
Great photo, I bet Frank got the information communicated just as well as can be done today with electronic white boards and PowerPoint presentations. |
MCroft04
Member Posts: 1634
From: Smithfield, Me, USA
Registered: Mar 2005
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posted 11-16-2018 09:08 PM
At Space Rendezvous 2018 I had the good fortune to speak with Mission Evaluation Room (MER) member Hank Rotter. Hank worked in life support. He said he saw Borman on an elevator following the Apollo 8 mission and Borman told him that he did not believe that the life support guys could keep them alive all the way to the moon and back. So Norm asked "but you went anyway?" |
Fra Mauro
Member Posts: 1587
From: Bethpage, N.Y.
Registered: Jul 2002
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posted 11-17-2018 11:43 AM
Outwardly, Borman didn't seem to trust the spacecraft much, which is understandable after Apollo 1. Look at his insistence at only 10 lunar orbits.
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Jonnyed
Member Posts: 396
From: Dumfries, VA, USA
Registered: Aug 2014
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posted 11-18-2018 07:28 AM
Love cS — I constantly learn new things on this site. How many lunar orbits were the mission planners trying to get Borman to do? |
Fra Mauro
Member Posts: 1587
From: Bethpage, N.Y.
Registered: Jul 2002
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posted 11-18-2018 08:04 PM
According to Rocketman, planners wanted to stay in orbit as long as they could but settled on 12 orbits (1 day). Borman felt even one orbit meant victory over the Russians but agreed to 1o revolutions. |
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