New York City welcomed the Apollo 8 crew with a ticker-tape parade on the 10th of January, Newark hailed them on the 11th, and Miami greeted them on the 12th during the Super Bowl game. The Astronauts returned to Houston on the 13th for a hometown parade. Incoming President Richard M. Nixon sent Borman and his family on an eight-nation goodwill tour of western Europe. Everywhere they went, the astronauts depicted the earth as a spaceship and stressed international cooperation in space.
Space Rocket History #159 – Zond 6
Space Rocket History #158 – Soyuz 2 and 3
Space Rocket History #157 – Apollo 7-The Flight Part 2
Space Rocket History #156 – Apollo 7-The Flight Part 1
Space Rocket History #155 – Apollo 7 – Assembly, Testing, Training, and Launch
Space Rocket History #154 – Apollo 7 – The Crew
Space Rocket History #153 – Zond 5 – Tortoises in Space
Space Rocket History #152 – The Death of Yuri Gagarin
Space Rocket History #151 – Zond 4
Space Rocket History #150 – Apollo 6: Pogo
Space Rocket History #149 – Apollo 5: Lunar Module’s First Flight
Space Rocket History #148 – Apollo 4: Operation Big Shot
Space Rocket History #147 – Saturn: S-II Stage Part 2: Trials and Tribulations
Space Rocket History #146 – Saturn: S-II Stage Part 1: Common Bulkheads, Gores, & Honeycomb Sandwiches
Space Rocket History #145 – Surveyors 2 – 7 with a Little Apollo 12
Space Rocket History #144 – Lunar Orbiter 2 – 5 and Wresat
Space Rocket History #143 – The First Soyuz Automatic Docking and the Secret Plan
Space Rocket History #142 – Venera 4
Space Rocket History #141 – Soyuz 1: The Crash
Space Rocket History #140 – Soyuz 1: The Flight
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