The Apollo 8 Christmas Eve Broadcast
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Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the Moon, entered lunar orbit on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1968. That evening, the astronauts; Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot Jim Lovell, and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders did a live television broadcast from lunar orbit, in which they showed pictures of the Earth and Moon seen from Apollo 8. Lovell said, "The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth." They ended the broadcast with the crew taking turns reading from the book of Genesis.
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This was the best Christmas I ever had. I was 8 years old.
888888username 3 months ago
4791 views in 4 years. It seems kids would rather watch Bart Sebral
TheSpiritof1969 8 months ago
Beautiful!!
steelerfanTX 1 year ago
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.
ecwaufisxtreme 1 year ago
Thank God someone believes in Him!
Criticmizer 2 years ago
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.
mpgingdl 3 years ago
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.
pianoclassclown 3 years ago
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.
videowilliams 3 years ago
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..."
kigawman 4 years ago
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 4 years ago