Margaret Lazarus Dean LEAVING ORBIT Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight

To Elliot, and the future

Lovell: Well, how about let’s take off our gloves and helmets, huh?

Anders: Okay.

Lovell: I mean, let’s get comfortable. This is going to be a long trip.

—Transcript of Apollo 8, first mission to lunar orbit, 1968

It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends.

—Joan Didion, “Goodbye to All That,” 1968

Diagrams

Saturn V
Space Shuttle

Credit: NASA

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