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Among other things the historic 1968 Apollo 8 mission did was the first reading in space from a religious text--namely, the Bible. This song from the first Wintermute album: "Notes from Cyber-space" serves as a "template" for other Winermute songs (i.e. "Heaven and Earth" ). I wanted to bring this to music because of the interesting idea of man being at the very pinnacle of science and yet still needing the "comfort" of his faith and religion.

The dichotomy of religion vs science was just too great a concept to pass up.
One key song element is the blending of Thunder into the song of the Saturn V rocket engines.

William Anders:
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.


Jim Lovell:
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.


Frank Borman:
And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

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