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Even Apollo 8 was inappropriate and NASA has very deliberately avoided those kinds of embarrassments since.


Agreed. It was pompously Abrahamic, evidently as much for political show as a heart-felt expression of wonder. We all do feel the wonder, but let’s avoid the Christmas kitsch and the tacit “God, the father” image he evoked.




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