Talk:Apollo 8 Genesis Reading
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This is only a stub so far, and I expect to expand this quite a bit over the next few weeks. For me, this mission is even more important than Apollo 11 as it was the mission that broke the back of the Russian Space program, and secondly that the crew had the guts to make this broadcast.--Woolhiser 14:54, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Timing
When this is played nowadays, the visuals with it show the Earth slowly coming into view from behind the Moon. However, in reality, LOS would be in effect until at least the receiving station (Goldstone, Roblenes(Spain) or the one in Australia) was no longer blocked by the Moon from the Apollo spacecraft.
What visuals, if any, originally were being transmitted during the audio transmissions transcripted here? GBC 22:58, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
