God Bless All of You, All of You on the Good Earth

The first voice in this broadcast, given from the Apollo 8 Command Module on Christmas Eve, 1968, is William Anders.

"God bless all of you, all of you on the good Earth."

Anders died todaydied today in a plane crash in Washington state. He was 90 years old.

He also took this picturethis picture of the Earth from Moon orbit, called Earthrise.

We live in an age where the men who visited the Moon all those years ago are dying. I fully expected to be able to visit the moon when I got older.

As a nation, we have diminished in our ambitions and reach, and are poorer for it.