THE FOUR SUNDAYS OF CHRISTMAS: Merry Christmas From the Moon, 1968
(3:52 VIEWING) — Here’s something about America that hardly ever is remembered in our public life — We are the only nation in the entire history of Earth to send men to the Moon and safely return them back home.
Apollo 8 Commander, Astronaut Frank Borman. (Screenshot from YouTube).
The immensity of the technological challenges in successfully going to the moon and back are almost beyond description, but this nation did it, not just once but multiple times, including putting men on the Moon’s surface.
Before that fabled 1969 Apollo 11 adventure that saw Neil Armstrong become the first man ever to set foot on the Moon’s surface, there was the Apollo 8 mission that became the first ever to orbit the Moon.
Apollo 8 circled the Moon on December 24, 1968, and it was during that day that Astronauts Frank Borman, William Anders and James Lovell took turns reading to more than 1 billion people back home from the Genesis 1 account of God’s creation of the Earth, the Moon and the entire universe.
To mark today as the first of what the John 10:10 Project and Illustra Media are calling “The Four Sundays of Christmas,” HillFaith is proud to post the following 3:52 second video documenting the amazing and inspiring occasion:
Last Christmas, each member of our family read part of Robert Kurson’s account of the reading (the Genesis text, identifying each astronaut in turn, and including Frank Borman’s concluding remarks) from his book Rocket Men. Understanding the magnitude of the moment, it was hard [not] to choke up repeating Borman’s benediction, “we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you—all of you on the good Earth.”
I had forgotten about this. Absolutely beautiful and incredibly touching. Thank you for the reminder.
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