Lovell's Lament

 Lovell's Lament




Image (Apollo 8) and text (quote by Command Module pilot 
Jim Lovell) courtesy of NASA.

Video production by Tom R. Chambers (former research 
analyst at the Lunar Receiving Laboratory during Project Apollo, 
1969-1972).

Music ("Urban Future") by Eric Matyas.
(soundimage.org)

Copyright 2022.



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