Counting Down to Apollo

One American's account of watching humanity reach the Moon

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They’re Going to the Moon — Not to Orbit the Earth
Apollo 8 December 21, 1968

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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