Borman at the same press conference hit upon another vital point, namely that Apollo 8 was acting as a catalyst, a forcing function, to clear all closets of skeletons, to force people to state their doubts about going so far from home, and to cause the moon to become an arena of actual operations, not just some far-off place it was theoretically possible to visit “… We designed Apollo, we said we were going to the moon, and … finally when we get down to examining the details and saying we are really going, people start getting a little queasy about it.”
