http://whippleworld.com/2009/11/20/apollo-8-launch/ Sun, 18 Dec 2011 23:22:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://whippleworld.com/2009/11/20/apollo-8-launch/comment-page-1/#comment-87819 John Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:12:46 +0000 http://whippleworld.com/?p=10798#comment-87819 Do we do cool things very often like that anymore? I guess inventing the Internet was a cool thing Americans did since then. And I guess the Shuttle and the Hubble. But Apollo 8 was a gunslinger's winner take all risk - if it went well (it went perfect to everyone's surprise) we could beat the Russians and keep the promise the country made to itself but if not, we were going to lose the whole deal. That was the pivotal fight. Do we do cool things very often like that anymore? I guess inventing the Internet was a cool thing Americans did since then. And I guess the Shuttle and the Hubble. But Apollo 8 was a gunslinger’s winner take all risk – if it went well (it went perfect to everyone’s surprise) we could beat the Russians and keep the promise the country made to itself but if not, we were going to lose the whole deal. That was the pivotal fight.

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