Merry Christmas

[AnimHalo]

From the crew of apollo 8 (1968) From the dark side of the moon!*


http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollo8_xmas.html

here the movie (low res, for the hight res check the 1s link)


http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/image/apollo8_xmas.mov



here the first picture of the earth from the moon orbit


http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0812/as8-14-2383HR.jpg

*literary license (added before FB comment)

[FreeBeer]

Some of us listened to that live.

PS: I'm pretty sure that it wasn't from the dark side of the moon - the moon would have blocked the radio signal ("blackout"), but I'll grant you the literary license.

[AnimHalo]

QUOTE (FreeBeer @ Dec 24 2008, 10:02 AM) Some of us listened to that live.

PS: I'm pretty sure that it wasn't from the dark side of the moon - the moon would have blocked the radio signal ("blackout"), but I'll grant you the literary license.

that's all correct!

it was a "literary license"

[TeeJ]

This next one is for your collection, Animhalo.




*need defenders*