Apollo 8 Comes Home
The trans-earth injection burn fired correctly and Apollo 8 splashed down safely in the Pacific this morning. They made it.
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Archive: December 1968
Christmas Eve at the Moon
On Christmas Eve 1968, three American astronauts in orbit around the Moon read from the Book of Genesis. Before they read, Bill Anders took a photograph. He called out: "Oh my God, look at that picture over there!" He had seen the Earth rising above the lunar horizon. Earthrise. The…
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They’re On Their Way
Apollo 8 launched this morning. The Saturn V worked. The translunar injection burn worked. Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders are on their way to the Moon.
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They’re Going to the Moon — Not to Orbit the Earth
Apollo 8 launched this morning and they are not going to Earth orbit. They are going to the Moon. Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders are riding the Saturn V to lunar orbit. For the first time in history, human beings are leaving Earth to go to another world.…
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