Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8 (104 page)

service module, 51, 230, 279

Service Propulsion System.
See
S.P.S.

Page 298

Shepard, Alan, 75

Slayton, Deke, 144, 146, 186

Soviet space program

automated control systems, 151, 236-37

competition with U.S., xiv-xv, 46-48, 104-5, 151, 241-42

cosmonaut's deaths, 152

goals, 237

Luna missions, 47, 132, 161, 164

lunar orbit missions, 132, 161, 164, 185, 193, 195

manned flights, 75, 86-87, 88, 194-95

Mir
space station, 264

moon landing as goal, 105, 237

reaction to Apollo 8, 236-37

rendezvous planned, 150, 195

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