Description: Yes we combine shipping for multiple purchases.Add multiple items to your cart and the combined shipping total will automatically be calculated. 1968 December 28 Kingsport Tennessee News Paper NASA Apollo 8 Hong Kong Flu Kills 547 ABOARD THE USS YORKTOWN(UPI)—Apollo 8 and its three interplanetarypioneers blazed back from the moon toearth and glory Friday, a triumphantconclusion of the historic voyage thatunlocked man’s door to the universe.The moon “is not made of green cheeseat all,” reported Apollo 8 commander FrankBorman in one of history’s finest hours.“It’s made out of American cheese.”Borman and his crewmen, James Lovelland William Anders, “look great and arelooking better all the time,” doctors saidafter they splashed down in the PacificOcean only three miles from the waitingcarrier Yorktown at 10:51 a.m. EST.The only men ever to see the back sideof the moon had to ride the gently floatingmoonship, blackened by its 25,000-mile-an-hour ride through the atmosphere, in the roll-ing Pacific until the dawn brought enoughlight to lift them into a helicopter and takethem to the Yorktown.Dr. Clarence A. Jernigan reported afterthe beginning of a long medical checkupthat the astronauts are “completely alertand are very happy. They are not as tiredas astronauts have been on previous flights.”“Man has started his drive out into theuniverse,” said Dr. Thomas Paine, actinghead of the National Aeronautics and SpaceAgency (NASA). He called it a “drive thatwill never stop.”The next major step in that drive will... 14919
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