Dec 242013
 

Forty Five years ago today, the crew of Apollo 8 read a bit of Genesis to the people of Earth from lunar orbit.  No matter what your religious views, this was a pretty neat thing (unless you’re a bit of  a dick).

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As reenacted in “From the Earth to the Moon:”

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 Posted by at 2:14 pm