[amsat-bb] Christmas 1968: Apollo 8

[B J]

On 12/25/18, Greg D <ko6th.greg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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!

I remember thinking that even though the moon didn't change in
appearance for me after that, it somehow looked different.  Then
again, we're of the generation that knew how it looked before men flew
there and walked on it.

73s

Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL