Robert Zimmerman
Genesis
The Story of Apollo 8, the First Human Flight to Another World

"Genesis captures the essence of the space race and the Apollo program." — Frank Borman (Commander, Apollo 8)

"Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8 successfully weaves together the flight to the moon with the political backdrop of that very troubled decade of the sixties." — Bill Anders (Apollo 8 astronaut)

"The flight of Apollo 8 brought a shining ending to a year of turmoil. Zimmerman tells the reality of that story with vigor." — Jim Lovell (Apollo 8 astronaut)

Circling the moon at 3,700 miles an hour, a quarter of a million miles from earth, the astronaut opened the Bible and began to read. "In the beginning God created the heaven and earth …" Sweeping past the three astronauts was a stark terrain, cold and forbidding. Unseen but listening intently was an audience of more than a billion people.

It was Christmas Eve 1968. And the astronauts of Apollo 8 — Commander Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders — were participants in a mission that took them farther (500,000 miles) and faster (24,000 MPH) than any human had ever traveled. Apollo 8 was the mission that broke humanity's absolute bond to the earth: it was the first manned vehicle to leave the earth's orbit.

Confined within a tiny spaceship, the astronauts were aided in their journey by a computer less powerful than one of today's handheld calculators. The mission was a triumph, and assured the public's continued interest in space exploration.

Robert Zimmerman has written for almost every issue of The Sciences magazine since 1994. He has also written on the sciences and technology for Industry & Technology, Astronomy, The Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. A filmmaker and former film instructor at New York's New School, he was born in Brooklyn and lives in Laurel, Maryland.

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