This is a bit off-topic, but since we’re talking about moons, it was 42 years ago tonight that Apollo 8 orbited our moon. That was the first time that human beings saw with their own eyes the backside of the moon. Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders were that crew. They read the first ten passages of Genisis, a very powerful moment in the long history of the US manned space program.
On Christmas day, they left lunar orbit and Lovell reported that “there is a Santa Claus” after coming around from the backside.
‘This is a bit off-topic, but since we’re talking about moons, it was 42 years ago tonight that Apollo 8 orbited our moon. That was the first time that human beings saw with their own eyes the backside of the moon. Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders were that crew. They read the first ten passages of Genisis, a very powerful moment in the long history of the US manned space program.
On Christmas day, they left lunar orbit and Lovell reported that “there is a Santa Claus” after coming around from the backside.’
I wa just reminiscing about that this morning. That was an exciting time...