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You Tube: Christmas Eve broadcast from lunar orbit by the crew of Apollo 8.
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| 12/14/07
| Kevin Davis
Posted on 12/14/2007 6:16:51 PM PST by KevinDavis
Even though I wasn't born until 1970 I still like to listen this..
You can view the video here: Apollo 8
TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Religion; Science
KEYWORDS: apollo8; christmas; christmaseve; nasa; space
Merry Christmas!
To: markman46; AntiKev; wastedyears; ALOHA RONNIE; RightWhale; anymouse; Brett66; SunkenCiv; ...
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posted on
12/14/2007 6:17:38 PM PST
by
KevinDavis
(Mitt Romney 08, WE ARE NOT ELECTING A PASTOR-IN-CHIEF!)
To: June K.
To: KevinDavis
I was 4 and even at that age I was excited about this stuff. Ya gotta figure that the whole world was excited about it and most American kids were encouraged to be excited and proud about it.
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posted on
12/14/2007 6:23:52 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Only one consistent conservative in this race and his name is Hunter.)
To: cripplecreek; All
I imagine it was exciting..
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posted on
12/14/2007 6:25:00 PM PST
by
KevinDavis
(Mitt Romney 08, WE ARE NOT ELECTING A PASTOR-IN-CHIEF!)
To: KevinDavis
Coincidentally, I was searching for this broadcast clip a week ago and found it on YouTube :) There is a version of it on an old DOS "game" from the late 80's called
Space Adventure: With Buzz Aldrin & Tom McDonough which overlays "Silent Night" in the background as the Apollo 8 Astronauts read the Scripture .... just beautiful, simply beautiful :)
Merry Christmas :)
To: KevinDavis
I was especially lucky because James McDivitt settled in Jackson Mi. after leaving NASA and my grandfather had business dealings with him. Granddad used to take me to the occasional business lunch and McDivitt had no problem taking a few minutes to tell stories about going into space.
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posted on
12/14/2007 6:33:54 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Only one consistent conservative in this race and his name is Hunter.)
To: KevinDavis
Very inspiring.
Our family was watching this live when I was a kid.
Still gives me chills.
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posted on
12/14/2007 6:40:32 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
To: Mr_Moonlight
Thanks, MM.
We just viewed that recently! :)
Very ‘uplifting’ viewing!
Junie
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posted on
12/14/2007 6:42:24 PM PST
by
June K.
To: KevinDavis
I remember it well—I was 14 and a big space and science fiction nut.
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posted on
12/14/2007 6:44:08 PM PST
by
Forgiven_Sinner
(The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is at all comprehensible.)
To: KevinDavis
I was 14 at the time, and we were at a big family get-together for the holiday... I remember all the activity in the house stopped and everything was quiet as we were all transfixed on the TV.
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posted on
12/14/2007 6:53:40 PM PST
by
mikrofon
(Merry Christmas!)
To: KevinDavis
My oldest daughter was born at about the time that Col Borman signed off with the fnal reading from Genesis. I wanted to name her Apollonia but my wife said NO!
It's a god Sicilian name but....
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posted on
12/14/2007 9:11:12 PM PST
by
Young Werther
(Julius Caesar (Quae Cum Ita Sunt. Since these things are so.))
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
12/15/2007 2:39:21 AM PST
by
tlb
To: kstewskis; Victoria Delsoul
To: KevinDavis
I listened to this live on my transistor radio. I had just turned 13.
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posted on
12/15/2007 10:15:06 AM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
("Liberals want to save the world for the children they aren't having." -Mark Steyn)
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posted on
12/15/2007 10:57:31 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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