{"id":2726,"date":"2024-11-03T18:20:19","date_gmt":"2024-11-03T23:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/?p=2726"},"modified":"2024-11-03T19:53:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T00:53:05","slug":"sooner-or-later-youve-got-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/03\/sooner-or-later-youve-got-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Sooner or later"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u201cIf you’re going to go to the Moon, sooner or later you’ve got to go to the Moon.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flight Director Glynn Linney, summing up the rationale for the Apollo 8 ‘go’ decision, NASA meetings, 1968. Quoted in the 2019 book Shoot for the Moon.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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This was a huge decision, a quantum step from Earth orbit flights. \u00a0Apollo 8 was the first crewed\u00a0spacecraft\u00a0to leave\u00a0Earth’s gravitational sphere of influence going out into deep space, and the first\u00a0human spaceflight\u00a0to reach the\u00a0Moon. The crew orbited the Moon ten times without landing and then returned to\u00a0Earth.\u00a0The three\u00a0astronauts were the first humans to see and photograph the\u00a0far side of the Moon and an\u00a0Earthrise. 240,000 miles outside of Earth orbit. Amazing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While NASA had carefully planned and prepared for this mission, it was still a massive leap. But some things can’t be done in small incremental steps, sometimes, sooner or later, you have to to the moon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s a great book, outstanding in a crowded field. Shoot for the Moon: How the Moon Landings Taught us the 8 Secrets fo Success<\/a>, Richard Wiseman, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIf you’re going to go to the Moon, sooner or later you’ve got to go to the Moon.\u201d Flight Director Glynn Linney, summing up the rationale for the Apollo 8 ‘go’ decision, NASA meetings, 1968. Quoted in the 2019 book Shoot for the Moon. This was a huge decision, a quantum step from Earth orbit flights. \u00a0Apollo 8 was the first crewed\u00a0spacecraft\u00a0to leave\u00a0Earth’s gravitational sphere of influence going out into deep space, and the first\u00a0human spaceflight\u00a0to reach the\u00a0Moon. The crew orbited the Moon ten times without landing and then returned to\u00a0Earth.\u00a0The three\u00a0astronauts were the first humans to see and photograph … Continue reading Sooner or later<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,21],"tags":[116,58,152,43,164],"class_list":["post-2726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","category-book-review","tag-history","tag-mindset","tag-nasa","tag-risk","tag-space-ops"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2726"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2734,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2726\/revisions\/2734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}