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To: SES1066
For those of us old enough, how can you ever forget this image and the reading from Genesis?

Ah yes! I remember it well!

... but, that's a still. IIRC, the live broadcast was of the lunar surface ... IIRC !

2 posted on 12/20/2017 11:57:04 PM PST by dr_lew
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To: dr_lew
No. Not from the surface.

That was not until a few missions later.

#11 was first to land on the surface.

3 posted on 12/21/2017 12:06:49 AM PST by BlueDragon
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To: dr_lew

Wow. This was way before my time. Genesis was read?!

This is all the more poignant in light of my studies of Russian history and the Soviet Union. *Atheism* and the triumph of man, the triumph of science were the values and auspices under which all their space travel was pursued. (Not to mention the triumph communism and the supremacy of the State.)

Its footage like this which reminds me why we won the Cold War. 1968 was such a profound time in our history, and yet we still managed as a people to cling to our understanding of being one humanity under our Creator, GOD.


4 posted on 12/21/2017 12:07:45 AM PST by GoldenState_Rose
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To: dr_lew
My mistake -- you said broadcast of the surface...not from the surface.
5 posted on 12/21/2017 12:08:17 AM PST by BlueDragon
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To: dr_lew

There is a video at the NASA web site.


6 posted on 12/21/2017 12:17:31 AM PST by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
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To: dr_lew

Heh. I was more or less right, but finding the actual video, it is not what I remembered! I thought the view was more or less downward, with the lunar landscape passing by.

Not it! They are looking towards the rim, and mention the sunrise there, but they are heading towards the darkside from their POV, and make substantial progress towards it during the reading, so that we are looking past the terminator at the dark side beyond by the end.

Very crude video!

... and Merry Christmas to all!


7 posted on 12/21/2017 12:18:48 AM PST by dr_lew
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