It's Winter but...also 35 years ago
It was go for TLI (Apollo 8) a most awesome mission! No spacewalks, no rendez-vous and docking, but the most inspiring flight ever (especially to those who were 11 at the time;). No one had ever been further or faster.
And they let go of a relic...
Just think of all the things that could have been sent on top of the SIVB instead of a dead weight...like messages, ashes.
Then, several years later, Scott made his feather and hammer demonstration.
This must have inspired Robert Mc Call in his Grand Achievement painting (lots of other of his paintings show astronauts with extended arms. This in turn led to the NASM mural.
Raoul