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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Razor, post: 658669, member: 18742&quot;]It was a bold decision to make up for lost time after the Apollo 1 fire.&nbsp; When the capsule redesign was finished there was one test flight, Apollo 7, that orbited the earth for 11 days.&nbsp; NASA (actually, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Low" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Low" rel="nofollow">George Low</a>) realized they weren&#039;t going to make Kennedy&#039;s deadline unless they took a few risks, and the very next flight two months later, Apollo 8, took three Americans to orbit the moon on Christmas Eve, 1968.&nbsp; Borman, Lovell and Anders became the first humans to see the far side of the moon with their own eyes.&nbsp; They were the first humans to gaze back at the shining blue jewel known as Earth hanging in the blackness of space from 240,000 miles away.</p><p><br /></p><p>I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Low a few times.&nbsp; He was an incredibly smart guy who was always a pleasure to talk to.&nbsp; Now there was a guy with some amazing stories.</p><p><br /></p><p>Whenever I think about how it sucks to be getting older, I give thanks that I was alive for those Apollo missions and at a great age to be thrilled by them.&nbsp; I think it&#039;s safe to say that if you don&#039;t remember them or maybe you weren&#039;t even born yet, you&#039;ll never see anything like it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d like to see every Apollo mission commemorated.&nbsp; Come next January the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 1 fire will be only 7 years away.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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