Tuesday 11 December 2018

Apollo 8 Astronauts Reflect on Historic Moon Voyage 50 Years Later

Apollo 8 Astronauts Reflect on Historic Moon Voyage 50 Years Later

Most years have at least a little something going for them, but 1968 was awful from the start. On just the 23rd day, North Korea seized the U.S.S. Pueblo, killing one sailor and holding the rest prisoner; on the 30th day, the start of the Vietnamese holiday of Tet, the Viet Cong launched a massive military offensive that cost more than 35,000 lives on both sides; on the 95th day, the Rev. Martin Luther King was murdered; on the 157th day, Senator Bobby Kennedy’s murder followed...

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