Beyond the Earth, Beyond the Skies

[pseudohistorian]

Although I wouldn't consider myself an especially religious person, one of my favourite Christmas moments has to be the television broadcast made by the crew of Apollo 8 (Lunar Module Pilot William Anders, Command Module Pilot James Lovell, and Commander Frank Borman), reading from the King James Version of the Book of Genesis as they orbited the Moon on December 24, 1968:

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Happy Holidays to all of you on the good Earth.