The Apollo 8 Christmas Eve Broadcast

[888888username]

This was the best Christmas I ever had. I was 8 years old.

[TheSpiritof1969]

4791 views in 4 years. It seems kids would rather watch Bart Sebral

[steelerfanTX]

Beautiful!!

[Criticmizer]

Thank God someone believes in Him!

[pianoclassclown]

Why wasn't Lovell Commander of Apollo 8 rather than Borman. Lovell was more experienced than Borman. Apollo 8 was Lovell's 3rd mission and it was only Borman's 2nd.

[mpgingdl]

Probably because Borman had been more closely involved with the redesign of the Apollo spacecraft after the fire that killed Grissom, White, and Chaffee. He was NASA's point man at the North American plant where the command module was built, so he was involved with the whole process every day.

[ecwaufisxtreme]

Borman has command seniority over Lovell. Borman commanded Gemini 7 while Lovell commanded Gemini 12. Lovell only got that flight because the original Gemini 9 crew got killed in a plane crash and his crew got moved up from 10 to 9. Collins was supposed to be on this flight instead of Lovell but was recovering from neck surgery due to a bone spur.

[videowilliams]

Frank Boorman later said in an interview: "I felt our reading from Genesis on Christmas Eve up there was pre-ordained somehow."

I think he's right. It was a profound historic moment.

[kigawman]

Ravi Zacharias: No wonder in December 68', The boys are going

at the dark side of the moon. They're vouched to safe a glimpse of

this Earth given to no human eye. And they saw earth rising from

the horizon of the moon. Drapped in a beautious mixture black, blue

and white. Garlaneded by the glissening light of the sun against the black

void of space, There's only one line that came to their minds, as the

World waited:

[kigawman]

No it wasn't Russell, it wasn't Nietzche, it wasn't Stephen

Jay Gould. It was the opening line of the Bible: "In the Beginning God..."