—Astronaut Bill Anders, who took this photo. Apollo 8 was his only spaceflight.
Looking back on the mission, his crewmate Frank Lovell said: “We often talk of going to heaven when we die. But in reality, don’t we go to heaven when we’re born? Because don’t we arrive on a body that has the proper mass that can contain water and an atmosphere? The very essentials of life? And don’t we arrive on a body that’s just at the right distance from a star that provides the energy, the energy to the Earth? And that energy is what caused life to evolve in the beginning.”
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Randy Cassingham is best known as the creator of This is True®, the oldest entertainment feature on the Internet: it has been running weekly by email subscription since early 1994. It is social commentary using weird news as its vehicle so it’s fun to read. Click here for the site — basic subscriptions are free.
Comments? Sorry: Facebook retired their commenting system (they didn’t even bother to alert me). Just as well, I suppose, but sadly there is no way to recover the many hundreds of comments made on this site. Lesson learned: never rely on someone else’s site for prime functions, especially “social media”!
Since this site is mostly retired now (maximum of one new post per month), I did decide that since all comments are now gone that I would not attempt to install any new commenting system. -rc
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