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Topic: Photo of the week 478 (December 21, 2013)
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heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 12-21-2013 02:52 AM
   
 Today's choice was easy: Apollo 8 was launched 45 years ago on December 21, 1968. Not only was this the beginning of an historic mission to the moon, but it also marked the beginning of my lifelong interest in spaceflight. Merry Christmas to all of you on the Good Earth! Ed Hengeveld |
East-Frisian
Member Posts: 586
From: Germany
Registered: Apr 2005
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posted 12-21-2013 05:41 AM
Merry Christmas to you, Ed, and to all the others, cSpacers. |
Chariot412
Member Posts: 156
From: Lockport, NY, 14094
Registered: Jun 2011
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posted 12-21-2013 07:28 AM
And from all of us on the good earth...Merry Christmas to you, too. |
mach3valkyrie
Member Posts: 719
From: Albany, Oregon
Registered: Jul 2006
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posted 12-21-2013 09:15 AM
I got up way early to watch the launch on TV. It was Christmas vacation during 6th grade so I watched a lot of that mission. Good call on the photo choice this week.Merry Christmas to all! |
paulushumungus
Member Posts: 466
From: Burton, Derbyshire, England
Registered: Oct 2005
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posted 12-21-2013 11:14 AM
Wonderful - Apollo 8 is my favourite mission. |
randy
Member Posts: 2176
From: West Jordan, Utah USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 12-21-2013 11:47 AM
Thanks for the memories Ed. Merry Christmas to all! |
Michael Davis
Member Posts: 528
From: Houston, Texas
Registered: Aug 2002
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posted 12-22-2013 04:37 PM
I feel blessed to have been just old enough to remember this day and the Apollo 8 mission. It changed everything. 1968 was a very bad year in general. There were the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. There was also weekly news reports of 100s of American casualties in Vietnam combined with constant stories of campus riots. This launch on that day and the following mission gave many of us children hope. I feel lucky to have watched the launch and the “Genesis” broadcast live. It changed my life and gave me a set of heroes that I still look up to until this day. |
bobslittlebro
Member Posts: 179
From: Douglasville, Ga U.S.A.
Registered: Nov 2009
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posted 12-22-2013 04:49 PM
I also got up early to watch the launch on T.V. and I believe it was a Saturday morning. Yes, brings back memories. |
onesmallstep
Member Posts: 1310
From: Staten Island, New York USA
Registered: Nov 2007
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posted 12-23-2013 01:33 PM
Ditto Apollo 8 being my introduction to spaceflight in 1968, together with Kubrick's '2001'. I was young but what impressed me the most was all of the world stopping during a terrible year and pausing to reflect on what man can do with the 'better angels' of his nature. |
mikepf
Member Posts: 441
From: San Jose, California, USA
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 12-23-2013 02:52 PM
I don't remember the launch, but I do remember the lunar broadcast. That is my earliest datable space memory. Thanks for posting! |
dss65
Member Posts: 1156
From: Sandpoint, ID, USA
Registered: Mar 2003
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posted 12-23-2013 09:27 PM
The memory of Apollo 8, and especially the "Genesis broadcast," still gives me goose bumps every time. I hope it always will. |
SaturnV
Member Posts: 24
From: Fowler, Ohio, USA
Registered: Sep 2013
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posted 12-24-2013 01:48 PM
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. |
Space Emblem Art
Member Posts: 194
From: Citrus Heights, CA - USA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 12-24-2013 10:33 PM
Forty five years ago on Christmas Eve I was 13 yrs old, in 8th grade on Christmas vacation and suffering the intestinal Hong Kong flu. While the flu was miserable it never detered me from watching the TV coverage of Apollo 8. While the black & white TV quality was, compared to now, poor quality, the reading of Genesis was a stroke of genius. If ever there was a proper setting for reading those passages that was it. |
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