An Apollo 8 Christmas

On Dec. 24, 1968, some 200,000 miles from home, Astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell & William Anders became the first humans to orbit the Moon on Christmas Eve.

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Science & Technology

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• Apollo
• Christmas
• Space
• Genesis

[tservo3k]

As the holiday season rolls around again, I am glad and surprised that people still come to check out this little slide show I made. Thanks for your comments.

[Dibubba]

God bless America, for allowing us to get there in my lifetime. And God bless you, for keeping the dream alive.

My best.

[tservo3k]

@Dibubba Thanks for your support.

[rachelonewocean]

beautiful moving video

[tservo3k]

Thanks. :-)

[tservo3k]

I appreciate that anyone had taken time to watch my little video. Honestly, there are much better versions out there than mine.

Whatever your religious or political dogma, it was intended simply to consider what it mut have been like out there on that day. To see the enormity of the Sun, Earth, and Moon -to realize that there is so much more than ourselves.

I simply ask that you be civil, and try to take it in the spirit of hope that it brought me to listen to it for that first time.

[toddsmitts]

Each astronaut was affected differently by their experience with the moon. Jim Irwin and Charlie Duke both became MORE religious after walking on it, while Gene Cernan said it made him certain there was a creator of some sort.  Al Bean left NASA to become a professional artist drawing lunar landscapes.

It's been suggested that the moon simply emphasized traits already there. Irwin and Duke were already religous. Anders was already a skeptic and Bean was already artistic.

[goombabear]

Merry Christmas

[dtr748]

Only one thing spoils it for us enthusiasts. What was the Lunar Module doing at the end. There was no Lunar Module on Apollo 8, which was the whole point, It wasn't ready so they went to the Moon instead. But thanks anyway. It seems to be the best one. I checked it out against the original James 1 version, and as you would expect, it was word perfect. They must have taken the page out, since Weight was at a premium.

[dtr748]

@Dibubba Hear, Hear. Some people were very young. Some weren't even a twinkle. They missed all of it. We that are left are very privileged. Course some folk were either working or sleeping. Heady years. We will not see the like again. Ever. Hail America and their Aviation Industry. Good engineering and operating. Engineering put them on the Moon, and they were making 747's and fighting in Veitnam at the same time. The big country. And Russia pushed all the way. Hail John Kennedy.

[dtr748]

@hardstyle905 Herberts sod off. You obviously never heard it live the first time, in 1968. Do some homework before you make stupid remarks. I'm only a paddy from black north of Ireland, but I heard it live in Portstewart, UK. Christmas Day, 1968. You obviously missed all the rest of it as well. Sasanach.

[dtr748]

tservo3k. Thank you for posting this. I saw this live first time around (as you must have done) in 1968. 42 years ago. Aren't we all getting old. It is but one of many Gems from the Apollo days. Us peasants on "The Good Earth" still cannot get on together. God help us all, where ever He is.

[Hairysteed]

So what? Isaac Newton believed in Alchemy

[hardstyle905]

@AcePilot101 No God FUCKS America.

[hardstyle905]

@Dibubba God doesn't like patriotic hicks. God bless GERMANY for providing the rocket technology too!!

[realsurecure]

To GOD Be The Glory!

[Rob260259]

Hey... it's Christmas eve...

Merry X-Mas everyone!