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Journey To The Far Side Of The Moon
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Not all great Christmas stories take place on Earth. One of the most ambitious and dangerous journeys ever undertaken saw America send three (very wise) men to orbit the Moon.
Back in 1968 it’s safe to say America was reeling with civil unrest and two particularly dreadful assassinations.
Both Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy had been brutally killed, there was racial tension and anti-Vietnam war protests all over the country.
Add to that the fact that the Russians looked ready to put a man on the Moon and it was safe to say. America needed something positive to come out of this tumultuous year.