Apollo 8 - 1st manned spacecraft to orbit the moon
12/24/1968 AD arrived
The crew orbited the Moon ten times without landing, and then departed safely back to Earth. These three astronauts—Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders—were the first humans to personally witness and photograph the far side of the Moon and an Earthrise.
Apollo 8 took 68 hours (almost three days) to travel the distance to the Moon. The crew orbited the Moon ten times over the course of twenty hours, during which they made a Christmas Eve television broadcast in which they read the first ten verses from the Book of Genesis. At the time, the broadcast was the most watched TV program ever.
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NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) An independent agency of... -
Apollo The American undertaking...
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Moon Earth's only permanent n...
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