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heng44
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posted 12-22-2007 02:25 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for heng44   Click Here to Email heng44     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

The distant Moon symbolically looks down on the Mission Control Center in Houston on Christmas Eve 1968. At the moment this picture was taken, a live telecast was being received on MCC television monitors from the Apollo-8 spacecraft, which was orbiting the Moon some 238,857 miles away. An Apollo-8 TV-camera was photographing the lunar surface from an altitude of only 60 nautical miles.

Merry Christmas everybody.

Ed Hengeveld

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posted 12-22-2007 06:01 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for KSCartist   Click Here to Email KSCartist     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Ed-

I knew you would post a creative reminder of that first Christmas in lunar orbit.

God Bless all of US on the good Earth.

Tim

Tom
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posted 12-22-2007 09:01 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Tom   Click Here to Email Tom     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Excellent picture to post, Ed. Happy and Healthy Holidays to all!

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