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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.
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.
[[Category:Space Exploration]]
[[Category:Space Race]]