Apollo 8 mission
Courtesy: NASA
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Christmas Eve, 1968
(Ninth revolution around the Moon)
85 hours, 44 minutes, and 58 seconds into the Apollo 8 mission, astronauts James Lovell, William Anders, and Frank Borman broadcast photographs of Earth from lunar orbit.
"The vast loneliness up here on the moon is awe-inspiring...makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth," says Lovell. "The Earth from here is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space."
"We are now approaching lunar sunrise," Anders says. "For all the people back on Earth, the crew of Apollo 8 has a message..."
"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth..."
Apollo 8 mission
Courtesy: NASA
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(Santa Monica, California)
I’m sprawled out in the work room with Levi, a some-time clerk at The Crystal Ship and a drug dealer on the Strip.
