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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 ...
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.
Apollo 8 (December 21–27, 1968) ... the broadcast was the most watched TV program ever. ... The Earthrise image Apollo 8's 1968 Christmas Eve broadcast and reading ...
The Apollo 8 crew. Left to right: Lovell, William Anders and Frank Borman. The Apollo 8 1968 Christmas Eve broadcast and reading from the Book of Genesis while in lunar orbit. Lovell was originally chosen as command module pilot (CMP) on the backup crew for Apollo 9 along with Armstrong as commander (CDR) and Aldrin as lunar module pilot (LMP).
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.
In December 1968, he was a member of the crew of Apollo 8, the first three people to leave low-Earth orbit and travel to the Moon. Along with fellow astronauts Frank Borman and Jim Lovell, he circled the Moon ten times, and broadcast live images and commentary back to Earth, including the Christmas Eve Genesis reading.
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.
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 ...