We got to the moon on Christmas Eve 1968, at the end of a poor year for this country. We had Vietnam. We had civil unrest. We had the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. But we went around the moon and saw the far side for the first time. A script writer couldn't have done a better job of raising people's hope.

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Jim Lovell was a 20th-century American astronaut. James Arthur Lovell Jr. was an American astronaut, naval aviator, test pilot, and mechanical engineer. Read more on Wikipedia →

Themes

  • Time — Reflections on the passage of time and how we spend it
  • Hope — Words of encouragement about optimism and brighter futures

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