On this day in 1968: Earthrise

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NASA commemorates the Christmas Eve broadcast from Apollo 8, where the iconic image of the Earth rising over the lunar surface was broadcast to the world.

Said Jim Lovell: “The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth.”

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By Scott Wells

Scott Wells, 46, is a Universalist Christian minister doing Universalist theology and church administration hacks in Washington, D.C.

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