"[I]f we fail, then the whole world,…all that we have known and cared for…will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that…men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'”
Forty years ago, Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders witnessed the first Earthrise in human history! Cheers went up around Mission Control when contact was regained with the spacecraft at 69:31:00 MET.
Apollo 8 is in lunar orbit!
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Forty years ago, Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders witnessed the first Earthrise in human history! Cheers went up around Mission Control when contact was regained with the spacecraft at 69:31:00 MET.
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