Aero-News: Quote of the Day

ANN's Quote of the Day usually derives from current news, though we reserve the right to pick quotes out of history that have a bearing on the day's events and issues.

Sometimes, you'll find them timely and in keeping with the content of the day's news... and sometimes, they'll just be thought-provoking.

Reader suggestions and comments are welcome... and if particularly intriguing, timely, or poignant, may themselves become future Quotes of the Day.

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Aero-News Quote of the Day

"We were told that on Christmas Eve we would have the largest audience that had ever listened to a human voice. And the only instructions that we got from NASA was to do something appropriate.

"The first ten verses of Genesis is the foundation of many of the world's religions, not just the Christian religion. There are more people in other religions than the Christian religion around the world, and so this would be appropriate to that and so that's how it came to pass."

Source: Astronaut Frank Borman, at the 40th anniversary celebration of the Apollo 8 mission held in 2008, recalling how the crew determined what would be its Christmas Eve message from lunar orbit.

FMI: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToHhQUhdyBY&feature=youtu.be