Merry Christmas Eve

Apollo 8, which flew 40 years ago, provides this picture of an Earth Rise.

Some links about that mission:
 
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/12/22/40-years-later-remembering-the-boldness-of-apollo-8/
 
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/image/as8_genesis1a.mov (The reading from Genesis)

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