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He says while his message can be read by anyone in the world in less than a second.
THE EPIC FLIGHT OF APOLLO 8
December 21, 2018 marks the 50th anniversary of mankind’s greatest adventure, the first manned trip to another heavenly body.
On December 21, 1968 at 7:51 am EST Frank Borman, James Lovell, and Bill Anders flew to the moon on Apollo 8. It was the first time mankind left the gravitational pull of the earth.
Apollo 8 was one of nine manned flights to the moon, each flight consisting of a three man crew. Of the nine only six actually landed on the moon. Two men went down in the LEM while one remained in the command module, ergo, twelve men have walked on the moon. Three men went to the moon twice (Lovell, Young, and Cernan) so only a total of 24 men have been to the moon.
Borman, Lovell, and Anders were the path finders. I’ll never forget their Christmas Eve message, the reading of the Creation from the book of Genesis. All three astronauts participated in the reading of Genesis I: 1-10 from the King James Bible:
Borman: “Apollo 8 has a message for you.”
Anders intoned the first words from the Book of Genesis:
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. . . .
Lovell then took up with the verse:
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night.
Borman closed:
And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
Borman signed off:
“And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas – and God bless all of you, all of you on the good Earth.”
See video below:
https://moon.nasa.gov/resourc…/318/apollo-8-genesis-reading/