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Chapter 6 The Cape By Rocco A. Petrone
At last everything was coming together all those elements that
had been
committed piecemeal - the command module in Apollo 7, the first manned
flight
away from the bonds of Earth in Apollo 8, the flying of the lunar
module with
men on board in Apollo 9, and then Apollo 10, which went to the Moon
and did
everything short of landing. It all led up to that hot July morning
in 1969,
when Apollo's moment of truth was irreversibly upon us.
Uncounted things had to be done before we reached that moment.
Before the
operational phase even began, we had to pass through the conceptualization
and
construction phase, remembering ...