The only two times you see Walter take his glasses off - when he announced that Kennedy had died, and when the transmission from the Moon ended with a reading from Genesis. He was really overcome with emotion, but handled it well. (I can't quite remember what I was thinking, but I was glued to the TV night and day, and my Dad let me stay up all hours at a very young age. He stayed up with me as long as he could :)
jeffrey hinkel yes it was❤️❤️❤️😢. My dad had his reel-to-reel tape recorder in front of the TV audibly recording the broadcast; CBS of course ☺️. I remember thinking at the time that Santa would cross their path❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️”Merry Christmas from the crew of Apollo 8”
50 years ago tonight, this was covered live by all 3 networks. Tonight, none of them bothered to even mention it. These are the self-appointed "guardians" . Pitiful.
@@dks13827 You personally didn't invent shit. You also leave out everyone from ancient Mesopotamia, Chinese pre-history, Ancient Egypt, to name a few. Convenient. None of them were "white', boy.
Any human who launches beyond the gravity of Earth and travels to the Moon (or beyond) can say whatever they so choose, if you ask me. This was perhaps the most poignant and consequential television broadcast of our time, and it was handled beautifully. Godspeed Borman, Lovell, and Anders.
5:10 is where the Scripture reading begins. I remember an interview done with Gene Kranz. He didn't work this particular mission, but he was sitting alone in the audience gallery when this happened. He was a good Catholic, and he said he was bawling when he heard this.
I fondly remember this amazing event from nearly 42 years ago.Thank you so very much for putting up these old space program videos especially the ones from the decade of the 1960's.I liked replicating this very same flight on the freeware Orbiter Space Flight Simulator several years ago (It made me feel like I was one of the astronauts experiencing the event).By the way my dad was a military pilot (not an astronaut though) .Love your channel.
What made the Biblical reading so powerful was the fact that they were farther away than any humans had ever been, and nobody knew if everything would work right.. Actually, the courts did have jurisdiction, as the Apollo command module was U.S. Government property. However, reading from any religious text should not be offensive, so long as no one from any religion forces one to live by their beliefs.
I'm an atheist, and I have a complicated view of this. Strictly speaking, the American Atheists did have a case. The ruling could have gone either way. While space and the moon itself are legally international waters, the command module was US Government property, and hence American soil. However, unless NASA or other government agency or official specifically requested the reading, the case against it was weak. The way it comes off, it was done by the astronauts of their own accord. They were in their right. And symbolically, it was actually fitting on a lot of levels. For the reasons you stated, and for the reason they were literally surrounded by the whole of His creation. The stars, the Moon, the sun, the Earth...the very cosmos. For the first time, for those who are believers, humans could see the sheer infinity of God's handiwork. If God created the universe, this vast and infinite universe, then truly God is great. A lot of flat earthers are motivated by religious dogma. But if they're trying to sell religion to me, then they're failing. Why would an infinite being -with infinite wisdom, might, and virtue- content Himself with a finite creation? And a very unimpressive snow globe at that.
@@tristanband4003 I find that most flat earthers I know are those who jump to the conclusion that because the corrupt ruling class lies to us about everything else, they must be lying about the shape of the earth and the configuration of the cosmos too. The Bible doesn't say the earth is flat, so that point is moot. People get a lot of things wrong when it comes to what the Bible says. I find the arguments of the Greeks from Pythagorus to Eratosthenes to be quite compelling. Flat earth is not at all the same kind of issue as the geocentric versus heliocentric controversy. It was reasonable to suppose that the sun went around the earth, and it took superior telescopes and advanced mathematics to prove otherwise. But it's probable that even bronze age mariners had a suspicion that the earth was round and not flat based on the evidence of their eyeballs.
@@jamesedwards.1069 When the land and other ships seem to dip below the horizon after a certain distance, it becomes a reasonable inference to suppose the Earth is round. Figuring out the circumference or diameter takes some shadow measurements and a little more math, but the curvature of the Earth was plain to their senses.
NASA did not instruct them to read from the Bible. According to Borman, the agency's exact words were that they should "do something appropriate." The astronauts were exercising their freedom of speech, just like any American.
And to think that, in 2017, a Canadian former astronaut -- now the Governor-General of Canada -- ridiculed people who believe that God created everything. I just saw a clip of this on the NASA Channel in Florida, and they had NO problem attributing to God's protection, the fact that the astronauts returned safely from that mission and the ones that followed. This was especially important, given the obstacles, the untried technology and the fact that they scrubbed two technical trials, because of the desire to "beat the Soviets". If there are no atheists in foxholes, there are even fewer in a tiny capsule, 240,000 miles from terra firma.
Actually, Bill Anders basically lost his faith on this flight. He had been a very conservative Catholic, but the universe he saw didn't fit his theology and he lost his faith. Borman and Lovell felt their faith deepened by the experience. Different folks are affected in different ways. I am a Christian and a pastor. I also attended the launch of this mission. I was deeply moved by the reading, though I do not take a litetalist view of the passages. My spirituality is informed, but destroyed by science.
I watched this at the Planetarium today and was stunned. Can you imagine this happening today? Of course not! How dare the God who made this universe be honored in public!
Come on, folks. Just accept this for what it is...a penultimate achievement by people that paved the way for Apollo 11. The fact that they read from the Bible should prompt admiration for their courage...not a protracted discussion on creation. These were men. Proud and accomplished men, to be sure. But just like us. Let the rest go here. Please.
To clarify, he did later come to believe in God. But yes, at the time he often did say (very obliquely, you couldn't just say it back then) he was an atheist. He was an atheist at the time.
In a year of many events--most of them bad--Apollo 8 was selected in a media vote as the biggest news event of the year. The same was true for Apollo 11 in 1969.
Can you imagine astronauts doing this now especially if it was an American astronaut? The PC police would try to have them thrown in jail after they made it back home.
Nope. Most americans are still religious. There would be slight controversy, but it would blow over fast. I am not very religious myself, I occasionally pray and go to church when offered, just to be on his good side if hes really up there lol. I think this was a great moment for humanity.
@@arminjorgenson5990 Yeah, even among the religious there were some questions about whether it was proper for the government to specifically read from the Bible, as opposed to vague mentions about God.
“I looked and looked but I didn't see God." [Speaking about, in 1961, becoming the first human to enter space.]”― Yuri Gagarin. I use to wonder why some cosmonauts testify God's presence and some do not, despite they too witness the same phenomenon. Later I came to know---"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." Matthew 5:8.
Sahrish Riaz - Gagarin never actually said that. From Wikipedia “no such words appear in the verbatim record of his conversations with Earth-based stations during the spaceflight.[23] In a 2006 interview, Gagarin's friend Colonel Valentin Petrov stated that the cosmonaut never said such words, and that the quote originated from Nikita Khrushchev's speech at the plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU about the state's anti-religion campaign, saying "Gagarin flew into space, but didn't see any god there."[24] Petrov also said that Gagarin had been baptised into the Orthodox Church as a child, and a 2011 Foma magazine article quoted the rector of the Orthodox church in Star City saying, "Gagarin baptized his elder daughter Yelena shortly before his space flight; and his family used to celebrate Christmas and Easter and keep icons in the house”
In 2021 America, which is in a rapid and heart-breaking state of decline...the crazies and loons and screamers would never ever tolerate anything like this. So sad.
We just lost Frank Borman. Hardly mentioned in the news. Sad that such monumental events and the people who carried them out are largely forgotten in favor of pop stars and athletes.
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The only two times you see Walter take his glasses off - when he announced that Kennedy had died, and when the transmission from the Moon ended with a reading from Genesis. He was really overcome with emotion, but handled it well. (I can't quite remember what I was thinking, but I was glued to the TV night and day, and my Dad let me stay up all hours at a very young age. He stayed up with me as long as he could :)
This was the best Christmas eve ever.
jeffrey hinkel yes it was❤️❤️❤️😢. My dad had his reel-to-reel tape recorder in front of the TV audibly recording the broadcast; CBS of course ☺️. I remember thinking at the time that Santa would cross their path❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️”Merry Christmas from the crew of Apollo 8”
yes indeed. I would go outside all that week and look up at the moon. It was so exciting.
Agree. I said to myself that night I'll never forget this. I havent.
50 years ago tonight, this was covered live by all 3 networks. Tonight, none of them bothered to even mention it. These are the self-appointed "guardians" .
Pitiful.
@spaceflight101 ....a long, long time ago.....in a land far, far away......
they don't approve of white history, even though we built and invented most things.
@@dks13827 You personally didn't invent shit. You also leave out everyone from ancient Mesopotamia, Chinese pre-history, Ancient Egypt, to name a few. Convenient. None of them were "white', boy.
Any human who launches beyond the gravity of Earth and travels to the Moon (or beyond) can say whatever they so choose, if you ask me. This was perhaps the most poignant and consequential television broadcast of our time, and it was handled beautifully. Godspeed Borman, Lovell, and Anders.
The moon is still within the Earths gravitational pull but yes I understand what ur saying
I was just a boy then, but I watched all of the moon mission broadcasts. Such great memories.
5:10 is where the Scripture reading begins. I remember an interview done with Gene Kranz. He didn't work this particular mission, but he was sitting alone in the audience gallery when this happened. He was a good Catholic, and he said he was bawling when he heard this.
this is the Apollo flight that most intrigues me
Check out the book Rocket Men. It made me look up this broadcast
One of the most moving, poignant and historically significant moments in human history.
Gives me chills, 50 years later.
another great vid zellco. this christmas eve reading still sends chills over me. brilliant!
I always thought that the reading from Genesis was eloquent and appropriate
The second-greatest Christmas story ever told!
A telegram (ancient tweet) said "Thank you Apollo 8, you saved 1968". That was a wonderful Christmas eve for me as a high school senior.
55 years ago today, Merry Christmas everyone
I fondly remember this amazing event from nearly 42 years ago.Thank you so very much for putting up these old space program videos especially the ones from the decade of the 1960's.I liked replicating this very same flight on the freeware Orbiter Space Flight Simulator several years ago (It made me feel like I was one of the astronauts experiencing the event).By the way my dad was a military pilot (not an astronaut though) .Love your channel.
Thank you for posting this.
Nearly brought a tear to my eye.
We'll be back, I know we'll go back some day.
Thank you again.
NEARLY???? U FUCKER
It did bring tears to my eyes.
What made the Biblical reading so powerful was the fact that they were farther away than any humans had ever been, and nobody knew if everything would work right.. Actually, the courts did have jurisdiction, as the Apollo command module was U.S. Government property. However, reading from any religious text should not be offensive, so long as no one from any religion forces one to live by their beliefs.
I'm an atheist, and I have a complicated view of this. Strictly speaking, the American Atheists did have a case. The ruling could have gone either way. While space and the moon itself are legally international waters, the command module was US Government property, and hence American soil. However, unless NASA or other government agency or official specifically requested the reading, the case against it was weak. The way it comes off, it was done by the astronauts of their own accord. They were in their right.
And symbolically, it was actually fitting on a lot of levels. For the reasons you stated, and for the reason they were literally surrounded by the whole of His creation. The stars, the Moon, the sun, the Earth...the very cosmos. For the first time, for those who are believers, humans could see the sheer infinity of God's handiwork. If God created the universe, this vast and infinite universe, then truly God is great.
A lot of flat earthers are motivated by religious dogma. But if they're trying to sell religion to me, then they're failing. Why would an infinite being -with infinite wisdom, might, and virtue- content Himself with a finite creation? And a very unimpressive snow globe at that.
@@tristanband4003 I find that most flat earthers I know are those who jump to the conclusion that because the corrupt ruling class lies to us about everything else, they must be lying about the shape of the earth and the configuration of the cosmos too. The Bible doesn't say the earth is flat, so that point is moot. People get a lot of things wrong when it comes to what the Bible says. I find the arguments of the Greeks from Pythagorus to Eratosthenes to be quite compelling. Flat earth is not at all the same kind of issue as the geocentric versus heliocentric controversy. It was reasonable to suppose that the sun went around the earth, and it took superior telescopes and advanced mathematics to prove otherwise. But it's probable that even bronze age mariners had a suspicion that the earth was round and not flat based on the evidence of their eyeballs.
@@jamesedwards.1069 When the land and other ships seem to dip below the horizon after a certain distance, it becomes a reasonable inference to suppose the Earth is round. Figuring out the circumference or diameter takes some shadow measurements and a little more math, but the curvature of the Earth was plain to their senses.
This is how it was, the images came from far away and the message was powerful, it made a great impression on me while I’m not church going
NASA did not instruct them to read from the Bible. According to Borman, the agency's exact words were that they should "do something appropriate." The astronauts were exercising their freedom of speech, just like any American.
And to think that, in 2017, a Canadian former astronaut -- now the Governor-General of Canada -- ridiculed people who believe that God created everything. I just saw a clip of this on the NASA Channel in Florida, and they had NO problem attributing to God's protection, the fact that the astronauts returned safely from that mission and the ones that followed. This was especially important, given the obstacles, the untried technology and the fact that they scrubbed two technical trials, because of the desire to "beat the Soviets". If there are no atheists in foxholes, there are even fewer in a tiny capsule, 240,000 miles from terra firma.
Actually, Bill Anders basically lost his faith on this flight. He had been a very conservative Catholic, but the universe he saw didn't fit his theology and he lost his faith. Borman and Lovell felt their faith deepened by the experience. Different folks are affected in different ways. I am a Christian and a pastor. I also attended the launch of this mission. I was deeply moved by the reading, though I do not take a litetalist view of the passages. My spirituality is informed, but destroyed by science.
This is so great that you could do this..Thank you so much..I remember watching The Launch, I had just turned 12 on Dec 20 1968
As of June 2023, all three are still with us.
How awesome!!! I wish NASA would recognize God today
How cool is that.
Rest in Peace, Bill Anders.
I watched this at the Planetarium today and was stunned. Can you imagine this happening today? Of course not! How dare the God who made this universe be honored in public!
"How dare the God who made this universe be honored in public!"
What god who made the universe?
Come on, folks. Just accept this for what it is...a penultimate achievement by people that paved the way for Apollo 11. The fact that they read from the Bible should prompt admiration for their courage...not a protracted discussion on creation. These were men. Proud and accomplished men, to be sure. But just like us. Let the rest go here. Please.
"Religions are a man made creation we use to govern our lives.." - Gene Cernan - Apollo 10,17
To clarify, he did later come to believe in God. But yes, at the time he often did say (very obliquely, you couldn't just say it back then) he was an atheist. He was an atheist at the time.
In a year of many events--most of them bad--Apollo 8 was selected in a media vote as the biggest news event of the year. The same was true for Apollo 11 in 1969.
Can you imagine astronauts doing this now especially if it was an American astronaut? The PC police would try to have them thrown in jail after they made it back home.
Nope. Most americans are still religious. There would be slight controversy, but it would blow over fast.
I am not very religious myself, I occasionally pray and go to church when offered, just to be on his good side if hes really up there lol. I think this was a great moment for humanity.
*****
There was a pretty huge controversy in 1968
Sad but true..
@@arminjorgenson5990 Yeah, even among the religious there were some questions about whether it was proper for the government to specifically read from the Bible, as opposed to vague mentions about God.
The lawsuit made it to the Supreme Court, where the justices wryly concluded that the court lacked jurisdiction in Moon orbit.
never listen to this and countdowns by sleeping at last at the same time....it's beautiful, but you will end up a sobbing mess
Borman was promoted to colonel when the reading was finished. lol
......a long, long time ago.....in a land far, far away.......
check out my posting of the funny "twas the night before" read to the Apollo 8 crew from Mission Control, 12/24/1968
“I looked and looked but I didn't see God." [Speaking about, in 1961, becoming the first human to enter space.]”― Yuri Gagarin.
I use to wonder why some cosmonauts testify God's presence and some do not, despite they too witness the same phenomenon. Later I came to know---"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." Matthew 5:8.
Sahrish Riaz - Gagarin never actually said that. From Wikipedia “no such words appear in the verbatim record of his conversations with Earth-based stations during the spaceflight.[23] In a 2006 interview, Gagarin's friend Colonel Valentin Petrov stated that the cosmonaut never said such words, and that the quote originated from Nikita Khrushchev's speech at the plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU about the state's anti-religion campaign, saying "Gagarin flew into space, but didn't see any god there."[24] Petrov also said that Gagarin had been baptised into the Orthodox Church as a child, and a 2011 Foma magazine article quoted the rector of the Orthodox church in Star City saying, "Gagarin baptized his elder daughter Yelena shortly before his space flight; and his family used to celebrate Christmas and Easter and keep icons in the house”
In 2021 America, which is in a rapid and heart-breaking state of decline...the crazies and loons and screamers would never ever tolerate anything like this. So sad.
7:04 7:09
What if Christopher Columbus went the to New World but didn't tell anyone about it?
+Ian Roberson Would you ask the question if he kept it to himself?
columbus war zu eitel :-)
That's an interesting question for a Temporal Mechanics class.
@huskyjerk Oh come on... THANKS!
We just lost Frank Borman. Hardly mentioned in the news. Sad that such monumental events and the people who carried them out are largely forgotten in favor of pop stars and athletes.
Brave men, all uncharted technology, one in three chance of returning🌓
Oral Presentations boiiiieee
cronkite wasn't all that great a newscaster from the look of this video
Was all very different back then. News today is an "anything for drama" fiction, not as much so back then.
Cronkite was Pre-Fake News.
Cronkite on his worst broadcast is a billion times better than lying Lester Dolt.
the big con
Big DOPE!