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On Christmas Eve, December 24, 1968, the crew of Apollo 8, the first humans to travel to the Moon, read from the Book of Genesis during a television broadcast. During their ninth orbit of the Moon astronauts Bill Anders, Jim Lovell, and Frank Borman recited verses 1 through 10 of the Genesis creation narrative from the King James Bible. [1 ...
The Earthrise image Apollo 8's 1968 Christmas Eve broadcast and reading from the Book of Genesis. When the spacecraft came out from behind the Moon for its fourth pass across the front, the crew witnessed an "Earthrise" in person for the first time in human history. [74]
English: The Apollo 8 Genesis reading on December 24, 1968, when the crew of Apollo 8 read in turn from the Book of Genesis as they orbited the moon. It was the most watched television broadcast at the time.
December 24 – Apollo 8 broadcasts to the Earth, relaying a report that there is a Santa Claus and reading a passage from the Book of Genesis. Also in 1968 Nearly 200 million households now own television sets, 78 million of which are in the US.
December 21, 1968: Launch of Apollo 8 The Apollo 8 patch, designed by astronaut Lovell At 10:47 a.m. (15:47:05 UTC), Apollo 8 became the first space vehicle to carry human beings beyond Earth's orbit, [ 88 ] and the three American astronauts on board — Frank Borman , Jim Lovell , and William Anders — went further away from Earth than any ...
He did not go into space until Dec. 21, 1968, when Apollo 8 lifted off on the first crewed mission to leave Earth orbit and travel 240,000 miles (386,000 km) to the moon.
William Anders, a NASA astronaut who was part of the Apollo 8 crew who became the first three people to circle the moon, has died in a plane crash. Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders who took ...
The following is the 1968–69 network television schedule for the three major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States. The schedule covers primetime hours from September 1968 through August 1969. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 1967–68 ...