Space Rocket History #166 – Apollo 8 – Translunar Injection
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Space Rocket History #166 – Apollo 8 – Translunar Injection

2020-04-08

At T plus 40 seconds Apollo 8 went supersonic and the ride smoothed out. Now it was quite again, but Borman kept a watchful eye on the trajectory readouts. If there was a Saturn malfunction he could whisk the capsule away just by twisting the abort handle. This would trigger the escape rocket.

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