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The first manned Saturn V vehicle, lifting off from Kennedy Space Center on December 21, 1968, with a crew of 3 astronauts, Frank Borman, James A Lovell, Jr., and William Anders, escaped Earth’s gravity, traveled to the lunar vicinity, and orbited the moon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I\u2019m a life-long aviation and space flight buff, and to me Apollo 8 was the most significant space mission ever–even more than the fabled Apollo 11.\u00a0 Landing on the moon, while certainly harrowing, is relatively easy.\u00a0 Getting there, however, is exceptionally hard, and Apollo 8 was the first manned flight to achieve that, 50 years ago this past Christmas.<\/p>\n

It had so many extraordinary moments, too many to mention here.\u00a0 I can never forget the Christmas Eve telecast from lunar orbit, watching the lunar surface drift past as the crew described a \u201cstark, foreboding<\/em>\u201d place, being visited by humans for the first time.\u00a0 If that was not enough, they closed by reading the opening lines of Genesis, and wished everyone \u201cGood luck, Merry Christmas, and God bless you, all of you on the good earth<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0 It\u2019s on YouTube, of course.\u00a0 You definitely should watch it<\/a>.\u00a0 I do every few years or so, on Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n

There is also a personal reason that I feel so connected to Apollo 8.\u00a0 Bill Anders and I both come from the same neighborhood outside San Diego.\u00a0 He\u2019d been gone for 15 years when we arrived but I used to bicycle past the family\u2019s house every day in high school.\u00a0 I even corresponded with him in the late 1990\u2019s, and we exchanged memories of growing up there.\u00a0 So in 1968, when my family was eating dinner and watching that Christmas Eve\u2019s telecast, we were only a couple of miles from where one of the crew members had grown up.\u00a0 I had always wanted to meet him, and the opportunity finally came a few weeks ago at the San Diego Air and Space Museum\u2019s Celebration of Apollo 8<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The author, Daniel Goldzband, at the San Diego Air & Space Museum event.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And yet it was not the moon that became the ultimate focus of the Apollo 8 mission.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe came to explore the Moon,\u201d said Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders, \u201cBut we discovered the Earth.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A few months earlier I had joined Carl Zeiss Vision, which gave me yet another connection with Bill Anders.\u00a0 He took his iconic photo \u201cEarthrise<\/a>\u201d with a Zeiss 250 mm Sonnar telephoto lens.\u00a0 Before I left for the museum I asked our president, Jens Boy,\u00a0 what I could bring him as a token of appreciation.\u00a0 Jens and I had the same idea — \u201cHow about giving him some ZEISS Lens Wipes<\/a>!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Photo credit: NASA\/Bill Anders, Public Domain, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=306267<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was \u2013 of course – a very small gift, but proved to be an excellent choice.<\/p>\n

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Dan (right) with astronaut William Anders (left) at the San Diego Air & Space Museum.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI could have used these on Apollo 8!\u201d said Anders with a smile and twinkle in his eyes.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, maybe so, but I think you and your crew mates did just fine, Mr. Anders, just fine.<\/p>\n

Congratulations and thank you from all of us.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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