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    The chaos kept coming in 1968

    by Mitchell Landsberg, Los Angeles Times Mar 05, 2018 5 minutes

    The year was fading. It was the morning of Christmas Eve, 1968, and the three-member crew of Apollo 8 was on its fourth orbit of the moon - the fourth such orbit in human history. Following their flight plan, the astronauts were executing a 180-degree roll, slowly turning the capsule as it shot through space.

    "Oh my God!"

    Astronaut Bill Anders had been peering out a side window, holding up a bulky Hasselblad camera to take photographs of the moon's cratered surface. Looking up at the lunar horizon, he glimpsed something that no one had seen before: an Earthrise.

    "Here's the Earth comin' up," he said, a trace of wonder in his voice. "Wow, is it pretty!"

    Down there, on that gorgeous blue orb, it had been a hell of a

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