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SorellaLaBefana

(407 posts) Sun Jan 1, 2023, 09:46 AM Jan 2023

"Grand oasis in the vastness of space" Apollo-8 December 24 1968

A time that now seems so difficult to remember, or even to imagine.

This is how Earthrise came to be captured:

My New Year's Wish for all of us is that December of 2023 will be better than so many of those this century

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"Grand oasis in the vastness of space" Apollo-8 December 24 1968 (Original Post) SorellaLaBefana Jan 2023 OP

A Good News forum, I didn't know there was one. Beautiful doc03 Jan 2023 #1

Same! Will visit and post here some...there is a strange shortage of optimism on this blue planet. Alexander Of Assyria Jan 2023 #2

KNR niyad Jan 2023 #3

That has to be the most beautiful picture EVER taken by a human being. EVER. Tommymac Jan 2023 #4

Kick. JohnnyRingo Jan 2023 #5

This image Rebl2 Jan 2023 #6

Apollo 8 Christmas Eve Broadcast - Genesis Reading (1968) cbabe Jan 2023 #7

doc03

(38,287 posts)

1. A Good News forum, I didn't know there was one. Beautiful

Reply to SorellaLaBefana (Original post)

Sun Jan 1, 2023, 10:18 AM

Jan 2023

Alexander Of Assyria

(7,839 posts)

2. Same! Will visit and post here some...there is a strange shortage of optimism on this blue planet.

Reply to doc03 (Reply #1)

Sun Jan 1, 2023, 10:41 AM

Jan 2023

niyad

(126,301 posts)

3. KNR

Reply to SorellaLaBefana (Original post)

Sun Jan 1, 2023, 11:01 AM

Jan 2023

Tommymac

(7,334 posts)

4. That has to be the most beautiful picture EVER taken by a human being. EVER.

Reply to SorellaLaBefana (Original post)

Sun Jan 1, 2023, 11:57 AM

Jan 2023

I tear up everytime I see it.

I remember it well, being a 10 year old glued to the TV when Frank Borman and crew took it, and read from Genesis on Christmas Eve.

JohnnyRingo

(20,106 posts)

5. Kick.

Reply to SorellaLaBefana (Original post)

Sun Jan 1, 2023, 12:05 PM

Jan 2023

A picture is worth a thousand words, but that one was worth a billion dollars.

Rebl2

(16,834 posts)

6. This image

Reply to SorellaLaBefana (Original post)

Sun Jan 1, 2023, 12:35 PM

Jan 2023

always takes my breath away. It is beautiful! I remember the Bible reading by the astronaut still, but am not sure who it was now.

cbabe

(5,432 posts)

7. Apollo 8 Christmas Eve Broadcast - Genesis Reading (1968)

Reply to SorellaLaBefana (Original post)

Sun Jan 1, 2023, 02:16 PM

Jan 2023

https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Apollo_8_Genesis_reading

Apollo 8 Genesis reading - Wikipedia

Astronauts Bill Anders, Jim Lovell, and Frank Borman, the first humans to travel to the Moon, recited verses 1 through 10 of the Genesis creation narrative from the King James Bible. [1] Anders read verses 1-4, Lovell verses 5-8, and Borman read verses 9 and 10. Around the world, television sets glowed with the broadcast.

Apollo 8 Christmas Eve Broadcast - Genesis Reading (1968)

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