1968 Apollo 8 crew reading Genesis on Christmas

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1968 Apollo 8 crew reading Genesis on Christmas
DerekSypniewski
Published on Nov 1, 2013

During the first ever manned trip to another space object, while orbiting the Moon for the very first time by human beings, on Christmas Eve 1968 the crew of Apollo 8: astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders have appropriately decided to send a message to Earth by reciting first 10 verses from Book of Genesis (English King James Bible version).

Fourty five years later at the time of writing, this message is still the most distant message ever sent and received by human beings.

Hats off to those 3 brave space pioneers, who went where no one else have ever gone before - and still hasn't!

Sadly, their trek won't be superseded by any farther manned flight in any foreseeable future, and if such trip should ever proceed, most likely it won't happen during our lifetime... since even a short video with mere portion of a sound from such flight - half a century later - is being at least tried to be squeezed for profits by multiple international corporations (some ain't even American!), obviously it only can and will get worse in the world run by global corporations instead of by the people, because no profits = no more space exploration; corporations running US governments (and most of the world today) obviously don't give a damn about science. If something/anything doesn't bring immediate profit, it won't get any funding anymore...


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Sound from NASA tape copy has been enhanced for better clarity; tape noise has been removed, but original transmission's noise has been left intact intentionally.

Visuals have been created from the famous "Earth Rise" photograph taken right before the reading by Astronaut Bill Anders aboard Apollo 8.

Image and sound sources courtesy of
Unites States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

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[zebonaut]

1. Actually; Man called the light; "day"; and Man called the dark; "night"