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<blockquote data-quote="Channel Hopper" data-source="post: 1062624" data-attributes="member: 175144"><p><a href="https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/moon-mars/a25239510/mission-control-return/" target="_blank">Houston, We Have a Resurrection: How Mission Control Came Back from the Brink</a></p><p></p><p><em>Former flight director Milton Windler says that the memory that really sticks with him is when<a href="https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollo8_xmas.html" target="_blank"><u> Apollo 8’s crew began reciting the Book of Genesis</u></a> at lunar sunrise on Christmas Eve 1965. He was standing at the flight director’s console and wasn’t expecting the dramatic reading. He said no one froze (after all, they had a space capsule to monitor), but all of Mission Control just sort of slowed down.</em></p><p><em>“It was like God was talking to us,” says Windler, “And he was.”</em></p><p></p><p>Something similar happened in a movie.</p><p></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]luaRtGn2tsI[/MEDIA]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Channel Hopper, post: 1062624, member: 175144"] [URL="https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/moon-mars/a25239510/mission-control-return/"]Houston, We Have a Resurrection: How Mission Control Came Back from the Brink[/URL] [I]Former flight director Milton Windler says that the memory that really sticks with him is when[URL='https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollo8_xmas.html'][U] Apollo 8’s crew began reciting the Book of Genesis[/U][/URL] at lunar sunrise on Christmas Eve 1965. He was standing at the flight director’s console and wasn’t expecting the dramatic reading. He said no one froze (after all, they had a space capsule to monitor), but all of Mission Control just sort of slowed down. “It was like God was talking to us,” says Windler, “And he was.”[/I] Something similar happened in a movie. [MEDIA=youtube]luaRtGn2tsI[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]
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