Word: radioing
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...America has re-recorded a new version of the holiday classic for broadcast nationwide. Yule Log: The Golden Age of Christmas promises nine hours of freshly filmed, high-definition Yule Log merriment, from the office fireplace of former Tribune Co. President Colonel McCormick, accompanied by recordings of classic radio shows - including rarely-heard radio versions of holiday classics A Christmas Carol and It's a Wonderful Life (featuring Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed reprising their film roles...
...Merry Christmas," one wrote). Sean Compton, WGN's Senior Vice President for Programming Entertainment, received email complaints as well. "I'm getting attacked," he says. "I had 10 emails this morning, and I don't know how they're getting my address." Compton, who came to WGN from radio, originally came up with the idea after stumbling across the radio plays on the Internet one Christmas Eve a couple years ago. "These are shows that haven't been heard in 60 years. You'd think if anything, the traditionalists would be like, 'This is really cool.' Mitch Thrower...
...engine burn was designed to slow the spacecraft down just enough to ease it into a lunar orbit without losing so much altitude that it crashed into the moon instead. Orbital mechanics also demanded that the maneuver occur on the dark side of the moon, entirely out of radio contact with Earth. At 68 hours and 58 minutes into their journey, the crew buckled in and vanished around the moon's far side...
...burn worked exactly as scripted, inserting Apollo 8 into an initial lunar orbit 169.1 miles high at its peak and just 60.5 miles above the lunar craters at its nadir. Even before the crew re-emerged around the other side of the moon and back into radio contact with Houston, Anders snapped what is surely the most iconic photo of the space age and one of the most iconic of any age: Earthrise over the lunar surface...
...again alone behind the moon, the crew re-lit the engine that was their only ticket home. If it had failed to burn, they would have been stranded forever in lunar orbit. The flight controllers - to say nothing of the families - waited anxiously for the astronauts to emerge from radio blackout. When they did, it was Lovell's voice that broke the silence...