Space Rocket History #166 – Apollo 8 – Translunar Injection
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English - April 08, 2020 19:39 - 32 minutes - 44.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 122 ratingsScience History Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Space Rocket History #165 – Apollo 8 – The Launch
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.