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The message “for all the people back on Earth” from the crew of Apollo 8, Christmas Eve (US time – Christmas Day lunchtime in Australia), 1968.

The video was seen at Honeysuckle Creek, and still photos were taken and distributed to the press – but there was no microwave link to allow the TV to be seen outside the station. This video was received through the Goldstone Tracking Station, which was in mutual view with Honeysuckle.

Acknowledgements:
with grateful thanks to Dick Nafzger of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and to the Applied Physics Lab at Johns Hopkins University.
Digitised by Colin Mackellar.