Counting Down to Apollo

One American's account of watching humanity reach the Moon

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They’re Home
Apollo 13 April 17, 1970

They’re Home

Apollo 13 splashed down in the Pacific today. Three parachutes. Three men alive. Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise are home. When the parachutes deployed and the capsule hit the water, Betty cried. I wasn't far behind. Six days of this. They made it.
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February 12, 1966

A Normal Tuesday at Home

I haven't written a normal-day entry in a long time. Let me describe what a Tuesday in February 1966 looks like for a man who follows the space program from Ohio.
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