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21-Dec-2018 ... Earthrise. NASA. On December 21, 1968, a Saturn V rocket blasted Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders toward the Moon. By Christmas Eve, ...Apollo 8 Christmas Eve Broadcast - Genesis Reading (1968) Apollo 8 Genesis reading. Earthrise is a photograph of Earth and some of the Moon's surface that was taken from lunar orbit by astronaut William Anders on December 24, 1968, during the Apollo 8 mission. Earthrise Here's a wish for a fine holiday season, to all the nice folks at the Maine forum, who have been very helpful with my occasional questions about UMaine/Orono over the past year and a half, and have been very accepting of my occasional posts responding to threads about life in Maine.Apollo 8 Christmas Eve Message. Apollo 8 - Christmas Eve 1968. On Christmas Eve 1968, Astronauts Frank Borman, James A. Lovell, Jr., . and William A. Anders, transmitted this holiday message as they orbited . the …

Dec 11, 2018 · Apollo 8, Christmas Eve at the moon. It has been 50 years since this mission and 50 years since the first 10 verses of Genesis was read to 1.5 billion people, the largest audience to that time. It was commemorated by a celebration at National Cathedral on Dec. 11, 2018 called “Spirit of Apollo”. The webcast is here. On December 23 of this year one of those astronauts, James Lovell, Command Module pilot of Apollo 8, recalled that moment on Christmas Eve 1968 when he, Commander Frank Borman, and Lunar Module ...Jan 31, 2001 · More Apollo 11 sounds Apollo 8 Christmas Eve Broadcast. NSSDCA Planetary home page. Author/Curator: Dr. David R. Williams, [email protected] NSSDCA, Mail Code 690.1 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD 20771 +1-301-286-1258. Apollo 8 took 68 hours to travel the distance to the Moon. The crew orbited the Moon ten times over the course of twenty hours, during which they made a Christmas Eve television broadcast in which they read the first ten verses from the Book of Genesis. At the time, the broadcast was the most watched TV program ever. “We are now approaching lunar sunrise, and for all the people back on Earth, the crew of Apollo 8 has a message that we would like to send to you.” “‘In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. ‘And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.

Lovell accrued over 715 hours spent in space, and he saw a total of 269 sunrises from space on his Gemini and Apollo flights. 1966 photo of Jim Lovell posing with Gemini-Titan model Jim Lovell at the Command Module Guidance and Navigation station during the Apollo 8 missionAnders, USAF, the Apollo 8 astronauts, who were beginning the 6-day space flight which would take them into lunar orbit. See also Items 645, 647. The message ...…

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