Apollo 8: Nasa's biggest risk - 13 Minutes to the Moon Season 1, Episode 6 - BBC World Service

War, riots, assassinations; it was described as “the year that shattered America”.

And then Nasa took the biggest risk in its history with Apollo 8, as astronauts went further from Earth than anyone had ever gone before and changed the way we look at our home forever.

Presented by: Kevin Fong

Starring:
John Aaron
Bill Anders
Frank Borman
Jerry Bostick
Michael Collins
Jim Lovell
Poppy Northcutt
Katherine Johnson (Courtesy of WHRO)
Chris Kraft (Courtesy of the Johnson Space Center Oral History Project)

Theme music by Hans Zimmer for Bleeding Fingers Music.

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[mizzo]

Our Christmas card he following year was the Earth rise picture with the words PEACE ON EARTH. I’ve read many books and seen so many Apollo documentaries. This was well done.

[sfperalta]

The part about the assassinations brought tears back to my eyes (I was 9 then). But this series is SO fascinating my sadness lifted right away and I was hooked. So well done! It's like a wonderful podcast. Then again, it's the BBC and they are known for good work.

[ditto]

Interesting title. I lived through that terrible year, and I never really thought about it that way, but I guess Apollo 8 did allow 1968 to end on an up note.

[JacoBecker]

Amen! Praise our LORD JESUS! Beauty in His creation and reality of HIS Grace upon us!

[LeoNardo-cmch]

I want to happy if "The Return to Mawson's Antarctica" deserving for YouTube as well.

[jorymil]

The first few minutes are hard for me to watch, and I wasn't even born in 1968. What a year.

[AndrewBlacker-td]

As Lovell is entering lunar orbit, a delivery man knocks on the door of his house in Houston.
His wife, Marilyn, answers the door and signs for the boxed delivery.

Not many women get a mink stoll ever.
Especially on Christmas Eve while her husband is flying around the moon.

[nandanm]

Very nice and rare footage, thank you for sharing this 🙏.

[AndrewBlacker-wrve]

I'm not very versed in physics so i plead dumbass ignorance as I ask this question.

"Why not do the braking burn just tangent to the moon?
"Set the lunar orbital velocity BEFORE initiating lunar orbit?"