I recently learned something from the History channel- 39 years ago tomorrow- Apollo 8, the world's first successful manned lunar orbit mission, orbited the moon in late December of 1968. They witnessed and photographed the world's first "Earth-rise"- the Earth rising "over" the moon.
On Christmas eve, 1968, on what was at that point the highest rated program in American television history, the 3 astronauts had a message for the world- a message of God's good creation. Pretty impressive that these three men would choose this unifying message at this tumultuous time in history (1968- race riots, Chicago DNC riot, MLK, Jr. assassination, Robert Kennedy Assassination, Vietnam, etc.).
Play the youtube clip for the audio- I'm guessing video back in 1968 was difficult to muster (hence the blackness out the window the entire time)- so here's the color earth-rise photo:
2 comments:
Thanks Rudi - this is amazing, and refreshing to hear.
Since I am so new to blogging, I might have a dumb question...Is it possible to "forward" this on e-mail to some of our friends?
Here's the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnyNXLXl8iA
Copy and paste this into an e-mail, and share it with anyone. Another possibility would be to paste the blog's address: http://vandrunenfam.blogspot.com
Hope that helps!
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