In Outer Space   
Evidence of Creation      
     
   If you were alive 50 years ago, July 20, 1969, where were you when Apollo 11 astronauts first walked on the moon? 

   

Charlie Duke

 Former astronaut Charlie Duke was 250 million        miles below the action, in Houston.

   As "capsule communicator," he was in charge. 
When the landing module went off course toward a field of boulders, Duke had about 30 seconds to decide whether to call it off. 

   That night, I returned to my office at a Westinghouse transformer plant, where I was newly employed in "personnel communications." Factory workers on the night shift had been told I would give an account of the historic moon landing. They could hear it by dialing 1 on a telephone. Did they? Anyone?   

   I remember being puzzled by the grainy picture on TV, and didn't clearly hear Neil Armstrong's first words. But I confirmed that Apollo 11 had landed.

   Previously, Apollo 8 first circled the moon. Mission commander Frank Borman said: "Earthrise was the most beautiful sight I've ever seen, the only color visible in all the cosmos." 

   It was Christmas Eve, and the crew took turns reading from Genesis chapter 1. Inside mission control in Houston, no one moved. Then, one after another, these scientists and engineers began to cry.

   Not Mr. Duke, who later piloted the lunar module for Apollo 16. He was devoted to science and self reliance. 

   Years later, the Duke family came to Christ, and saved their marriage. He now says, "The evidence to me is overwhelming that there's a Creator. The orderliness in the universe and the physical laws that we experience - That can't be by accident." 

   And he saw with his own eyes what Job wrote long ago: 

He stretches out the north over the void and hangs the earth on nothing. 

  

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       Jimmy