At nine o’clock that night, Houston time, Lovell and the rest of the crew completed a television broadcast. None of the three networks had carried the show—by April 1970, flights to the moon were old hat, as were ill-lit pictures of whiskery astronauts floating around in their spacecraft. The main audience had been the people at M.S.C., watching on the television monitors scattered around the Center. In the MOCR, flight director Gene Kranz had permitted the O&P officer to throw the television image onto one of the screens on the front wall. With the spacecraft safely on course, the LEM docked
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