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Old 25-October-2005, 03:21 AM
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Originally Posted by breeze
Actually, I enjoyed reading what ToSeek had to say about Apollo 8. I had no idea. It gives me a new perspective on how brave these people really were. Wow!

I think in was in Nova's "To the Moon" that Bill Anders said, "At the time, I gave us a 1 in 3 chance of completing the mission and returning safely, a 1 in 3 chance of failing, but returning alive, and a 1 in 3 chance of not returning at all."
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