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All rights reserved. And we return to our American stories. When Apollo 8 took off from the John F. Kennedy Space Center in 1968, The Vietnam War was in full swing, and earlier that year in April, Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
This all wasn't lost on Apollo eight's three astronauts, Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and William Anders, as they took off on their grand journey around the moon. Here to tell the story of what happened, with that in mind. is Steve Cates. Take it away, Steve. Apollo 8, NASA made a decision that they would send three astronauts On a journey around the moon for 10 lunar orbits in 1968, around Christmas time.
There was a lot of objections in some of the higher officers of NASA. That this might not have been the right thing to do because we only tested. Apollo 7 in Earth orbit. And yet we haven't sent the Apollo spacecraft to the moon yet.
So, Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and William Anders did that most incredible feat. Here's Jim Lovell, astronaut on Apollo 8, with more.
Well, my first sensation, of course, was not too far from the Earth because when we turned around, we could actually see the Earth start to shrink.
Now, the highest anybody had ever been, I think, had been either, I think it was Apollo or Gemini 11, up about 800 miles or something like that, and back down again. And all of a sudden, You know, we were just going down, and it was, it reminds me of driving a car, looking out the back window, going inside a tunnel, and seeing the tunnel entrance shrink as you go farther into the tunnel. It was uh. Quite a sensation to think about. And you had to pinch yourself: hey, we're really going to the moon.
I mean, this is it. I was a navigator, and it turned out that the navigation equipment was perfect. I mean, it was just you couldn't ask for a better piece of navigation equipment. Coming into the moon itself, the last day, our blunt end was towards the moon. And we didn't see it as it got bigger.
But the ground called up, and the mission control said, now at such and such a time, and they named it right down to the second, you'll lose communication with us because the moon's gravity will swing around to the far side. Right to the second. There was static in our earphones, no comp. Then of course we uh Uh we lit the uh engine to slow down. and we got into lunar orbit and this is where we started to look at the moon, you know, and uh we all those nice things we said and Yes.
That Christmas message, when we determined, first of all, that we would get and burn into. The lunar orbit. on Christmas Eve. with our boy.
Something's got to be appropriate to say. We ought to say something. What can we say? And we couldn't think of anything. Then there was a fellow that I think Borman knew.
His name was Sai Bourguin.
Well, it's another example of the wonderful country we live in. We've got Julian Cheer, who was the head of. Public information for NASA and Washington. Call me one day. is you're going to have the largest audience that's ever listened to or seen a a television picture of a human.
on Christmas Eve. And you've got, I don't know, five or six minutes. And I said, well, that's great, Julian. What do we do? And he said, do whatever is appropriate.
That's the only instructions. Then that's the exact word. Do whatever is appropriate, whatever you feel is appropriate. And be honest with you, we were so involved in the mission And this was a peripheral one, so I just kind of farmed that out to a friend of mine. Cyborgen.
Uh and uh from Washington. He was with the U.S. Information Agency, I think had gone with them, some of the astronauts around their trips. Frank asked him, could he come up with something appropriate?
Well, he couldn't, but he knew another person, I think it was a newspaper man, I forget his name. That He said, okay, I'll think it over. I'll try to see what I can do. And he was working almost all night trying to think of appropriate words, and his wife came down and said. Why don't you have them read something from the Bible?
And they said, Well, that's you know, the New Testament. No, she says the Old Testament. Reading from Genesis. you know, this would be very appropriate. And we d we had it typed on the flight plan and that's I didn't give it any more thought than that.
So that's how it came to pass that he said the first 10 verses of Genesis, which is really the foundation of many of the world's religions. That's how it got started. Come on. A canal broken uh lunar sunrise. And uh for all the people Back on Earth.
crew of Apollo 8. Have a message that we would like to send you.
Okay, um The beginning. God createth the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form and void. and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters, And God said, Let there be light.
And there was light. And God saw the light. They were good. And God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the white day.
And the darkness he called night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters. Let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the promise.
and divided the waters which were under the firmament, The waters which were above the front. And it was so. And God called the room in heaven. And the 18th, and the 14th, and the Second day. God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together into one place.
and let the dry land appear and it would salt. God called the dry land Earth. and the gathering together of the waters called each day. The cops saw that it was good. And from the crew of Apollo 8, They close with good night.
Good luck. A Merry Christmas. And God bless all of you. All of you on the good earth. Looking back at the Earth, On Christmas Eve, Had a great effect, I think, on all three of us.
I can only speak for myself, but it had for me. because the wonderment of it and the fact that The earth looks so lonely. in the universe. It's the only thing with color All of her. Emotions were focused back there with our families and so on.
So that was the most emotional part of the flight for me. We were so curious, so excited about being At the moon, that we are like three school kids looking into a candy store window, watching those ancient old craters go by from, and we're only 60 miles above the surface. We didn't have any kind of feeling, at least myself. of You know, fear, or if you know, are we going to get back or not? It was just to be there was such an exciting moment.
that you know would have done it all the time. I felt very, very honored. And lucky to be there. There was a little bit of concern as to how that would be received in the world. But NASA gave them the permission to do that.
I mean, it wasn't something that was really that controversial. But in many circles, they thought that, hey, this is an appropriate thing to do as we celebrate the birth of the Christ child, Christmas. And read from the book of Genesis and talk about the creation, according to the Bible, of how the universe was formed and God and His wonderful ways. Of how we manifest beauty and love to all the people of the world, and probably to all people in the other civilizations outside of this world. At the time, we didn't know what the effect of the flight would be.
We didn't know whether the flight was going to be successful or not. But, you know, with riots and assassinations and the war going on. I was part of a thing that finally gave an uplift to the American people about doing something positive, which was really, that's why I say Apollo 8 was really the high point of my space career. Their neutrality in politics was always number one. But reading from the Bible was just in their opinion, and I approve of it.
I think it was a beautiful thing because at that time, There's a way to send a message about peace and love. And why not do that during a time when everybody needed palming? It was probably one of the most watched shows. ever in the history of television. And I don't know the exact number of people that were watching, but it's in the hundreds of millions, and it was so well done.
And I thought that the reading of the Bible and the book of Genesis was apropos for the time when tensions were very high in America. And a terrific job on the editing and production and storytelling by Monty Montgomery. A special thanks to Steve Cates. And also a special thanks to NASA Johnson Space Center Oral History Project. for some of the audio in this piece and NASA itself.
The astronauts knew they needed to say something appropriate on Christmas Eve with the largest television viewing audience, perhaps in history. They were told Do something appropriate. And my goodness did that. The story of the reading of Genesis, the story of Americans in orbit around the moon, and God's creation. Here.
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