Apollo 8

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Apollo 8 was the second sucessful manned flight of Project Apollo, the manned moon missions, and was an important proof of the concepts needed for the later Apollo 11, as it was the first flight of the Saturn V rocket. Apollo 8 was crewed by Frank Borman, the Commander; Jim Lovell, the Command Module Pilot and William Anders, Command Module Pilot became the first humans to orbit around the Moon.

Apollo 8 launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on December 21, 1968, and it took three days to travel to the Moon, which they orbited for 20 hours. While in lunar orbit the crew made a Christmas Eve television broadcast in which they read from Genesis 1:1-10 and wished the people of earth a Merry Christmas. This would be the most watched television broadcast in history, surpassed during the Apollo 11 flight. The mission returned to Earth on December 27.