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"The vast loneliness up here is awe-inspiring, and it makes you
realbe just what you have back there on Earth. The Earth from
here is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space."-LovELL
"Waters are all sort of a royal blue, clouds of course are bright
white, the reflection of the earth is much greater than the Moon.
The land areas are generally a brownish, sort of dark brownish
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"Now, we were iust saying that there's a beautiful
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"What I keep imagining is if I am some lonely traveler from
another planet. What would I think about the Earth at this
altitude? Whether I think it would be inhabited or not."-LOVELL
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sand with lots of footprints in it.
Some of these craters look like
pickaxes striking concrete, creating
a lot of fine haze dust."-ANDERS
"You can see by the numerous craters that this planet (the
Moon) has been bombarded through the eons with numerous
small asteroids and meteoroids pockmarking the surface every
square inch."-ANDERS
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Dr. George E . Mueller Brlg Gen. Edmund F O'Connor Dr. John F. Clark
Assoctate Admrnrstrator for Dtrector, lndustnal D~rector,Goddard Space
Manned Space Firght, NASA Hqs. Operattons, MSFC Nrght Center, Greenbelt, Md
Lt. Gen. Samuel C . Phillips Lee B James Ozro M Covington
Drrector, Apollo Program Manager, Saturn V Program Assistant Director for Manned
OMSF. NASA Hqs. Offtce, MSFC Space Flight Tracktng, GSFC
George H. Hage Willlam D. Brown Henry F. Thompson
Deputy Dtrector. Apollo Manager, Eng~neProgram Deputy Asststant Dtrector
Program, OMSF, NASA Hqs. Offtce, MSFC for Manned Space Flight
Support, GSFC
W ~ l l ~ aCm Schnelder Dr. Kurt H. Debus
Apollo Mrsston Dtrector, Dtrector, John F. Kennedy H W ~ l l l a mWood
OMSF, NASA Hqs. Space Center. Fia. Chtef, Manned Flrght Operattons
Dtviston. GSFC
Chester M. Lee Miles Ross
Assrstant Mrssron Dtrector, Deputy Director, Center Tecwyn Roberts
OMSF, NASA Hqs. Operations, KSC Chief, Manned Flrght Engtneerrng
Dtvrslon. GSFC
Col. Thomas H. McMullen Rocco A Petrone
Assrstant Mtsston Drrector, Director, Launch Operations, KSC L R. Stelter
OMSF, NASA Hqs. Chref, NASA Communtcattons
Walter J. Kapryan Dtvtsion, GSFC
Dr. Robert R Gllruth Deputy Dtrector, Launch
Drrector, Manned Spacecraft Operattons, KSC Ma1 Gen Vincent G. Huston
Center, Houston USAF DOD Manager of Manned
Dr. Hans F. Gruene spa& Fltght Support Operations
George M. Low Director, Launch Vehicles
Manager Apoiio Spacecraft Operations, KSC Ma]. Gen David M Jones
Program, MSC USAF Deputy DOD Manager of
Rear Adm. Roderick 0. Mlddleton ~ a n n k dSpace Flight Support
Kenneth S. Kle~nknecht Manager, Apollo Program Operattons, Commander USAF
Manager, Command and Servrce Office, KSC Eastern Test Range
Modules, Apolio Spacecraft John J. W ~ l l ~ e m s
Program Oifrce. MSG Rear Adm. F. E. Bakutis
Dtrector, Spacecraft USN. Commander Combined
Donald K. Slayton Operations, KSC Task Force 130 Paclftc
Director, Flight Crew Paul C Donnelly Recovery Area (Primary)
Operations, MSC Launch Operattons Manager, KSC Rear Adm P. S McManus
Christopher C. Kraft, Jr. Gerald M. Truszynski USN, Commander Combtned
-Dtrector Firght Operattons, MSC Assoctate Adrntnrstrafor, Task Force 140 Atlantic
Clifford E. Charlesworth Trackrng and Data Acqutsttiorl, Recovery Area
Glynn S. Lunney NASA Hqs. Col. Royce G. Olson
M. L. W ~ n d l e r H. R. Brockett USAF, Dtrector. DOD Manned
Apollo 8 Flrght Dtrectoc;, Deputy Assocrate Adminrstrator, Space Flight Office
Flrght Operafrons, MSC OTDA, NASA Hqs Brig. Gen. Allison C Brooks
Dr. Wernher von Braun Norman Pozlrlsky USAF, Commander Aerospace
Drrector. Marshall Space Dtrector, Network Support Rescue and Recovery Service
Flight Center, Huntsville, Implementatton Divrsion, OTDA
Alabama