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Apollo 8 commander Frank Borman felt that his initial attempts to draft something appropriate to say on their Christmas Eve broadcast sounded too much like an apology for the United States involvement in the Vietnam War, and Joseph Laitin of the Bureau of the Budget (now the Office of Management and Budget) was brought in to assist.
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The Apollo 8 1968 Christmas Eve broadcast and reading from the Book of Genesis while in lunar orbit On 22 December 1966, Anders was assigned to the third Apollo mission, which was to be commanded by Frank Borman , with command module pilot (CMP) Michael Collins ; Neil Armstrong, Jim Lovell and Buzz Aldrin were assigned as their backup crew the ...
(Reuters) -Retired astronaut William Anders, who was one of the first three humans to orbit the moon, capturing the famed "Earthrise" photo during NASA's Apollo 8 mission in 1968, died on Friday ...
Apollo 8 launched on December 21, 1968, and was the second crewed spaceflight mission flown in the United States Apollo space program (the first, Apollo 7, stayed in Earth orbit). Apollo 8 was the third flight and the first crewed launch of the Saturn V rocket.
William Anders, an astronaut who was one of the first three people to orbit the moon, and who took the famous “Earthrise” photo, died Friday after a small plane he was in crashed in the water ...
In 2013, he wrote and performed the narration on a NASA video re-creating the taking of the famous Earthrise photo during the Apollo 8 mission. [ 2 ] His book A Man on the Moon: One Giant Leap states that he grew up in Great Neck, New York , and, while studying geology at Brown University , worked at the NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...