Posted on 12/24/2020 5:06:41 PM PST by rustyweiss74
On Christmas Eve in 1968, three astronauts aboard the historic Apollo 8 manned mission to the moon captivated the world by reading the opening verses of the Bible.
The message was heard by an estimated 1 billion people on Earth.
The Apollo 8 mission, which set forth into space on December 21, 1968, was critical in leading to an actual lunar landing just shy of seven months later.
The three astronauts onboard – Air Force Col. Frank Borman, the mission commander; Navy Capt. James A. Lovell Jr., the command module pilot; and Air Force Major William A. Anders – were on a mission designed to come within about 70 miles of the moon, orbit it several times, and return home safely.
They brought with them a television camera with which to capture their feats. Feats which included:
Being the first humans – American or Russian – to leave Earth’s gravitational field. The first humans to see the dark side of the moon. The first to enter lunar orbit.
They were also the first to see planet Earth in its entirety from its celestial counterpart, captured in Anders’ “Earthrise” photo.
The Apollo 8 Christmas message was one that helped heal America in a rather difficult year.
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What took place just miles from the surface of the moon on December 24th, 1968, likely would never be aired in today’s anti-Christmas, anti-religion environment.
“We were told that on Christmas Eve we would have the largest audience that had ever listened to a human voice,” Borman recalled during the mission’s 40th-anniversary celebration in 2008.
“The only instructions that we got from NASA was to do something appropriate.”
(Excerpt) Read more at menrec.com ...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEmn0uaQCYc
I remember that! I also remember the atheists demanded time for a rebuttal. The answer was...”Sure. Come on up here and do it!”
And if there were criticisms they got ignored.
We sat by the fire that evening and we listened intently then we went to sleep here on what was the good Earth. We were so proud and happy to be Americans and to be part of a country that had people that could deliver such a message to the entire earth.
Back then there was no equal time for things against our standards. We were a Christian nation then. That was our standard but we were tolerant of other views though we did not submit to them.
Thank you for posting this.
Oh how the mighty have fallen. If only we had feared the Lord and followed his commandments, we would not have become like Sodom and Gamorrah.
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