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Lot 21

APOLLO 8 EARTHRISE
SIGNED WITH CHRISTMAS MESSAGE FROM FRANK BORMAN.
Large format color photograph, 23 1/2 x 31 1/2 inches,

12 – 21 July 2021, 16:00 PDT
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APOLLO 8 EARTHRISE

SIGNED WITH CHRISTMAS MESSAGE FROM FRANK BORMAN.
Large format color photograph, 23 1/2 x 31 1/2 inches, fine.

SIGNED & INSCRIBED by Borman with a Christmas message: "And from the crew of Apollo 8: / God Bless all of you - all of you on the good Earth / Frank Borman / Apollo 8 CDR / Christmas Eve 1968." Fantastic quote from Borman's close of the famous Christmas Eve broadcast from the Moon fittingly applied to William Anders' perspective-broadening photograph.
Borman was quoted during the Apollo 8's 40th Anniversary celebration in 2008: "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."

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