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==Broadcast==
{{quote|text=Around the world, television sets glowed with the broadcast. One in four people on Earth—roughly a billion people spread among 64 countries—listened to the reading. Within 24 hours, recorded broadcasts of the address from the moon reached people in another 30 countries. Audiences in North and South America as well as Europe tuned in live thanks to the recently launched [[Intelsat III F-2|Intelsat 3]] satellite. [[COMSAT]] put the satellite into operation a week ahead of schedule so that international audiences could follow the flight.|author=Teasel Muir-Harmony|title=How Apollo 8 Delivered Christmas Eve Peace and Understanding to the World<ref>{{cite web |last1=Muir-Harmony |first1=Teasel |title=How Apollo 8 Delivered Christmas Eve Peace and Understanding to the World |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-apollo-8-delivered-moment-christmas-eve-peace-and-understanding-world-180976431/ |publisher=Smithsonian Magazine |access-date=22 September 2021 |date=11 December 2020}}</ref>}}
==Drafting, and Christina Laitin's suggestion to read from Genesis==
[[Apollo 8]] commander [[Frank Borman]] felt that his initial attempts to draft something appropriate to say on their Christmas Eve broadcast sounded too much like an apology for the [[United States involvement in the Vietnam War]], and Joseph Laitin of the Bureau of the Budget (now the [[Office of Management and Budget]]) was brought in to assist.<ref name = "WaPo 1995">{{cite news | last=Smith | first=J.Y. | title = Christine Laitin Dies at 65| newspaper = [[The Washington Post]] | date = April 6, 1995 | url =https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1995/04/06/christine-laitin-dies-at-65/62c0b636-aee2-479d-81a5-5ea52179e5cc/| access-date = July 17, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Shribman |first1=David M. |title='God bless all of you on the good Earth': Remembering the daring Apollo 8 mission - The Boston Globe |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2018/12/22/god-bless-all-you-good-earth-remembering-daring-apollo-mission/gfZV91DpAuDshKGEOEMfJK/story.html |access-date=March 20, 2020 |work=Boston Globe |date=December 22, 2018}}</ref> Laitin
The suggestion to instead look to the [[Old Testament]] and use the beginning of Genesis came from Christine Laitin, Joseph Laitin's wife who, as a young teenager, was a member of the [[French Resistance]] during the occupation of Paris in World War II.<ref name = "WaPo 1995"/><ref name=Watkins/>
The text was printed on fire-proof paper and included in the mission [[flight plan]].<ref name=Watkins/>▼
▲The Genesis text was printed on fire-proof paper and included in the mission [[flight plan]].<ref name=Watkins/>
==Transcript==
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==In popular culture==
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===Postage stamp===▼
In 1969, the United States Postal Service issued a [[commemorative stamp|postage stamp]] ([[Scott catalogue|Scott]] # 1371) to commemorate the Apollo 8 mission and the Genesis reading. The stamp includes the words "In the beginning God...", with the Apollo 8 ''[[Earthrise]]'' image in the background.▼
===Art, entertainment, and media===
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*The entire reading is reproduced verbatim in the "1968" episode of the 1998 [[HBO]] [[miniseries|TV miniseries]] ''[[From the Earth to the Moon (TV miniseries)|From the Earth to the Moon]]''.
*An excerpt from James Lovell's section of the reading was used in the 2017 episode "Freedom & Whisky" of the [[Starz]] series ''[[Outlander (TV series)|Outlander]]'' (season 3, episode 5).
▲===Postage stamp===
▲In 1969, the United States Postal Service issued a [[commemorative stamp|postage stamp]] ([[Scott catalogue|Scott]] # 1371) to commemorate the Apollo 8 mission and the Genesis reading. The stamp includes the words "In the beginning God...".
==Notes==
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