December 24 in American History
On Christmas Eve, the crew of Apollo 8 became the first humans to orbit the Moon — and beamed back a live reading from the Book of Genesis and the photograph called "Earthrise," our whole planet rising blue over the gray lunar horizon. To a hard year, America gave the world a new way of seeing home.
In 1968: Apollo 8 reads Genesis from lunar orbit. On Christmas Eve, the crew of Apollo 8 became the first humans to orbit the Moon — and beamed back a live reading from the Book of Genesis and the photograph called "Earthrise," our whole planet rising blue over the gray lunar horizon.
On Christmas Eve, the crew of Apollo 8 became the first humans to orbit the Moon — and beamed back a live reading from the Book of Genesis and the photograph called "Earthrise," our whole planet rising blue over the gray lunar horizon. To a hard year, America gave the world a new way of seeing home.
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