NASA Celebrates 45th Anniversary of Apollo 8 'Earthrise' Photo (New Video Released From NASA)

UPI ^ | December 24, 2013 | Ananth Baliga

[Secret Agent Man]

card caption - nasa: remember when we actually flew into space?

[KoRn]

I wonder whether we could build a Saturn 5 right now. I’m sure we probably could, but with the way things are run these days, it would most likely take 20 or so years to complete.

[ETL]

Sheila Jackson Lee
Member of the U.S. House
of Representatives
from Texas's 18th district

On a visit to the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2005, Jackson Lee made embarrassing news by asking if the Mars Pathfinder had taken an image of the flag planted there in 1969 by Neil Armstrong.[2]

Prior to the 110th Congress, Jackson Lee served on the House Science Committee and on the Subcommittee that oversees space policy and NASA.

(Wiki apparently has since deleted this, but you can find the same at the other link below)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Jackson_Lee#Political_career

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=981

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Talking about “collections”. I just reviewed my astronaut signed “Space Shots” card collection and photographs. Got 7 of the 12 moon walkers, including Aldrin’s signed book “Return”, several command pilots (Worden, Schmidt/also a walker, etc). and a signed painting by Alan Bean which looks like “Earthrise”, signed by Bean, Conrad and Duke(?).

My legacy to my son. Hoping my granddaughter actually gets to go into space. She’d love the view from up there.

[Bobalu]

I don’t want to poke fun at her.. because it’s so sad... I could just weep.

[deks]

If you click on the Keyword: apollo8 (just above Reply #1), there may information on that in some of the previous threads.

[ETL]

Especially considering this...

“Prior to the 110th Congress, Jackson Lee served on the House Science Committee and on the Subcommittee that oversees space policy and NASA.”

[Vendome]

Nice...

[Yosemitest]

You need to hear Apollo 8 reading Genesis from the Bible.

1968 Apollo 8 crew reading Genesis on Christmas ( 1:56 )
Published on Nov 1, 2013

During the first ever manned trip to another space object, while orbiting the Moon for the very first time by human beings, on Christmas Eve 1968 the crew of Apollo 8 (Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, Bill Anders) have appropriately decided to send a message to Earth by reciting first 10 verses from Book of Genesis (English King James Bible version) 45 years later this message is still the most distant message ever send and received by human beings.

Sound from NASA tape copy has been slightly enhanced for better clarity - tape noise has been removed but original transmission's noise has been left intact. Visuals have been created from the famous "Earth Rise" photograph, taken right before the reading by Astronaut Bill Anders aboard Apollo 8.

Courtesy of Unites States National Aeronautics and Space Administration

I remember it well, watching and listening to it, in the wee hours of the morning, Dec 24, 1968.
Even as a young teenager, it brought tears to my eyes, then ~ and ~ now.

[ScaniaBoy]

Thanks for posting this. An indelible memory that Christmas morning when the whole family sat in front of the tele and watched the close up pictures of the moon and listened to the words from Genesis from so far away.

We didn't have to get up that early, since we are a few hours ahead of you. :-) Merry Christmas to you all!

[lbryce]

At 0:56 of the You Tube:NASA EarthRise:The 45th Anniversary Commemorative Video linked above, the narrator makes the following statement;
A few minutes after 10:30 am Houston time Apollo 8 was coming around from the far side of the moon for the fourth time.

In the referenced blog below, the author states that the reading of the Bible took place on the ninth orbit of the moon.

If you find out how long it took Apollo 8 to make a single orbit around the moon, multiplied by at least 4 orbits (that would place the time at the beginning of the ninth orbit) and add it to the time of the completion of the fourth orbit at 10:30 am as reported by the narrator,you'll have as precise time of the Bible reading as you're going to get.

The Backwoods Engineer:Apollo 8 Christmas Eve Reading of Genesis

The 3-astronaut crew of Apollo 8 — Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot James "Jim" Lovell, and Lunar Module Pilot William "Bill" Anders — became the first humans to travel beyond low Earth orbit, the first to see Earth as a whole planet, and then the first to directly see the far side of the Moon.

On their ninth orbit of the Moon, the crew did a television transmission, that included this reading from Genesis...

[lbryce]

Please see post #31.

[Yorlik803]

The God haters went insane over that. they Screamed, pissed and moaned like a bunch of babies.

[Campion]

Actually a team is working right now on building a new and improved version of the F-1 engine (Sat V first stage) to power the strap-on boosters on the new heavy-lift rocket NASA is trying to develop. They'll probably end up going with solids (yuk) but the F-1B proposal will be the competition.

There's an interesting article on Ars Technica on a team that took one of the original F-1s out of storage and reverse-engineered it, 3-D scanning the parts to create a set of CAD-CAM drawings (which never existed before; the F-1, like the rest of Apollo, was designed by hand on drafting tables).

One of the things that amazed them was the amount of skilled handwork that went into building one of those engines -- holes were drilled by a man on a drill press, welds were done by a skilled welder with a torch, etc. All those things would by done by a robot controlled by a computer today. In a certain sense, we've "lost" the technology to build a Saturn V because we're way beyond it now.

[Ready4Freddy]

The admin wouldn’t allow it since it might make muslims feel bad about themselves.

[Yosemitest]

I was talking about watching it live, on a black and white, small TV set in 1968.
As a member of the Science Club in a very small, rural school grades 1-12 with a student body average of 350 students, it was a time to remember.
It was one of the few time the whole world stood still to watch it, even during the Vietnam "policing action".

AFVN Apollo 12 Moon Walk Coverage by American Forces Vietnam Network ( 33:20 )
Published on May 19, 2012
Apollo 12 coverage as seen by American military and civilian personnel in Vietnam serving during the Vietnam War, as well as millions of Vietnamese.
This special report was produced by broadcast journalists at the American Forces Vietnam Network in Saigon, and telecast over AFVN, the military radio televsion network in Vietnam during the Vietnam War..
The 1969 program is co-anchored by Army Specialist Bob Lawrence and Air Force Sergeant Hugh Morgan.
Incorporated is coverage of the launch as reported by CBS newsman Walter Cronkite.
The original black and white kinescope was saved by Sgt. Morgan, who brought it home before the fall of Saigon.
After 43 years, it has been transferred to a digital format, allowing it to be seen again and shared worldwide via YouTube.

[Yosemitest]

I was too young to remember that.
But I remember how hard it was for me to stay awake until about 3:30 or 4:00 am to watch it live.

[Yosemitest]

Other News during the Apollo Missions.

ABC News - July 1969 ( 10:16 )
During Apollo-11 Moon Landing
-Frank Reynolds
-Peter Jennings
-Suez Canal Fighting- Russell Jones
-N. Vietnam- Ted Koppel
-S. Vietnam- Sam Donaldson
-Cuba
-Sen. Kennedy- Edgartown Hearing
-Explorer
-MLB
-Howard K. Smith Commentary

[a fool in paradise]

“It’s pretty weird that we can’t secure a Web site, but we can orbit and land on the moon...”

>>We could at one time, not so much now. Libs took over...

The same red dupes who were leading protests and bombing campaigns in the 1968 revolution now RUN the country and academia.

They are the sort who said that we were WRONG to be spending so much to send man in space or to challenge the Russians to a "space race" when "so many" were suffering around the globe in poverty.

Anti-American then, those in charge continue to be anti-American. Obama's goal has been to hobble this nation and knock it down a peg or two on the world stage.

[a fool in paradise]

Like Lucifer, the Leftists spewed the poison into the minds of men through the media and even our GovernMental elementary educational (indoctrinational) institutions to create a groundswell of a mis-guided belief system (religion) quickly endorsed by our politicians. They even instituted an annual day of worship called "Earth Day!"

They established Earth Day on Lenin's 100th birthday. Coincidence? I think not.