Parshat Bereishit on 1st Broadcasted Space Flight
In 1961, Soviet Astronaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to travel in space. He famously quipped after returning to Earth, “I looked and looked and looked, but I didn’t see God.”
In contrast, 7 years later in December 1968, 3 NASA crew members became the first people to broadcast pictures of Earth, taken from space, on national media.
The message they sent with this moving broadcast were the same words Jews around planet Earth will be reading this Shabbat: “When God created the Heavens and the Earth…” Shabbat shalom!
Lovely!