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				 Happy Birthday Earthrise> Its been 40 years! BBC News/ Science & Environment 
 
			
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 Forty years ago, the biggest TV audience in history tuned in to watch humankind's first close encounter with another world, as the crew of Apollo 8 reached lunar orbit. Here, the Apollo historian and film-maker Dr Christopher Riley gives his perspective on the mission and how that Christmas Eve of 1968 changed the world. 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7797439.stm
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