Apollo 8: Around The Moon and Back

50 years ago, three NASA astronauts embarked on a journey that would take them “Round the moon and back”. The Apollo 8 mission proved the performance of the command and service module. This historic mission launched on December 21, 1968 to demonstrate a lunar trajectory and was the first crewed launch of the Saturn V rocket. On Christmas Eve, Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders were the first humans to orbit the Moon and the first to see an Earthrise above its surface.

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Producer/Editor: Amy Leniart

[Ryusennin]

Apollo 11 was nice and all, but Apollo 8 was the first human crew to actually leave the Earth's orbit and travel to another world. That was not a small step but a truly giant leap.

[thejesuschrist]

One of the best Christmas stories ever told! 😇

[MonkeMac]

I truly love space and I can’t wait for spacecrafts to become public transport.

[OzoneSeba]

3:14 "And I thought, holly fu.. moly" XD

[tifoziPT]

Whoever you guys hired to do these videos... Give him/her a raise. Also, keep them coming. This and "We are NASA" are amazing videos.

[jchandler]

This is the sort of story that has inspired so many people to do amazing things. Thank y'all for making this video!

[solotron]

Still awe-inspiring fifty years later. Seems like only yesterday.

[Labored]

Why don’t these videos get more views than adult men unboxing toys.

[griever]

I would've loved to be alive in 1968 and listening to Frank Borman xmas message coming from an old CRT TV

[ammag]

A cut piece of fingernail of any of these heroes worth more than all of todays media-, social media celebrities together. Thanks for this short video.
Live long and prosper

[Parzival]

Those old astronauts still keep a great mental lucidity thanks to their extremely professional job and hard life, i deeply admire them.

[ES-wpbi]

So beautiful, we seriously need to go back!

[warriorsmustang]

4:03 _"God has given mankind a stage, upon which to perform. How the play turns out is up to us."_ That is my new favorite quote

[Space_Cadet]

Remember Grissom, Chaffee, White. RIP you made it possible.

[Rouverius]

Science might fly you to the moon. But it takes faith to buckle yourself into an unproven rocket to get there.
Kudos to Borman,  Lovell and Anders.

[mutumadickson]

Borman is a true patriot. America is in his heart.

[simonachis]

Thank yoy NASA for this amazing videos.🎅🎄💟

[thomthumbe]

I feel blessed to have been allowed to live when humans from Earth first left and touched somewhere else besides this, our original home.

[vishalgoswami]

I watch moon every single day except dark nights and imagine how earth would be look so gorgeous from the moon as moon look from the earth, always had a dream to go there and see the earth, milky way, stars.

[Nocturnal_Owl]

You are gr8 NASA! even with low budget, you achieved so much. You've given hope to the mankind for the future. God bless you, all of us. 😘