[amsat-bb] Christmas 1968: Apollo 8

[Greg D]

Agreed!  We were taking a family Christmas vacation at Lake Tahoe that
week.  Rental house, no TV.  As I recall, all we had was an AM radio. 
But I very clearly remember standing outside between storms, knee-deep
in snow, looking up at the nearly full moon, and thinking, wow, there
are three guys in orbit up there!

Greg  KO6TH


B J wrote:
> It was one of those events in which people stopped for a few moments
> and said "Wow!"  because they not only thought it was amazing but they
> knew that they were seeing history being made.  It was front-page news
> and regular TV programming was preempted to bring coverage of what was
> happening.