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Book: Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon
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  1. Robert Kurson _ Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey

    Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
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  2. Robert Kurson _ Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey

    Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him." Texas senator Lyndon Baines Johnson was
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  3. Robert Kurson _ Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey

    After the meal, Borman dropped me off at my hotel, then went to visit his wife at the nursing home where she lives. As he drove away, it seemed to me strange-I felt I'd come to know Susan as well as I had Frank, despite having met her for just a few minutes, despite the fact that she had been too ill to speak. When I returned home and transcribed the tapes of my interviews, I understood why. Borman spoke of Susan constantly; there didn't seem an aspect of his life he could explain without discussing how much she meant to him or how much he loved her. I'd heard the same from Lovell and Anders about their wives. When I discovered that Apollo 8 was the only crew in which all the marriages survived {astronaut careers were notoriously hard on marriages} it didn't surprise me. In a singularly beautiful story, it seemed only fitting that the first men to leave Earth considered home to be the most important place in the universe.
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