Posted on 09/06/2015 12:15:06 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Explanation: What's that rising over the edge of the Moon? Earth. About 47 years ago, in December of 1968, the Apollo 8 crew flew from the Earth to the Moon and back again. Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders were launched atop a Saturn V rocket on December 21, circled the Moon ten times in their command module, and returned to Earth on December 27. The Apollo 8 mission's impressive list of firsts includes: the first humans to journey to the Earth's Moon, the first to fly using the Saturn V rocket, and the first to photograph the Earth from deep space. As the Apollo 8 command module rounded the farside of the Moon, the crew could look toward the lunar horizon and see the Earth appear to rise, due to their spacecraft's orbital motion. Their famous picture of a distant blue Earth above the Moon's limb was a marvelous gift to the world.
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[Credit: Apollo 8, NASA]
Back when NASA was a tremendous powerhouse.
“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”
http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/faith-and-morals/item/17252-apollo-8-astronaut-recalls-historic-scripture-reading-from-space
Can you imagine the uproar if they tried to read from the Bible today?
Thank you. Love APoD.
Me too. I think that’s by Bill Anders.
Amazing how sharp those images are. They rival modern digital.
There was a bit of an uproar back then, got coverage of course. And the tax cheat atheist O’Hair and her creepy cadre brought a suit when Buzz had communion on the Moon. Eventually some grifter killed her, her daughter, and one of her sons, buried the carcasses, and stole a bunch of their ill-gotten gains.
Ye reap what ye sow.
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