How to pronounce “apollo 8” in English

Apollo 8 would not land on the moon.

Apollo 8 could never fully balance the mortal ledger of 1968.

Apollo 8 was just that kind of act of defiance and joy and courage, too.

Apollo 8 earthrise photo which is the first uh overview taken by Bill Anders uh on December 24th

If Apollo 8 could make it to the moon by Christmas week 1968, it was going to be much more than just

The Apollo 8 astronauts could fly either a circumlunar mission, whipping around the back of the moon and coming straight home, or they

And Apollo 8, Frank Borman was the commander, so it's commander centric.

In addition to "Apollo 8," which he is here to talk about, he also authored "Apollo 13."

and the crew of Apollo 8 was perched directly on top of it.

The idea of Apollo 8 was to jumpstart what was going on.

So the decision was made that Apollo 8 would go into orbit, despite the fact that it was the harder, scarier, riskier

And all of that was before Apollo 8 had even reached the moon.

But that didn't mean Apollo 8 couldn't redeem the year, and in some small way, redeem the civilization that had sent the crew out on so

over reading from the book of Genesis on Apollo 8.

So this is the first picture of the Earth taken from Apollo 8.

So I want to talk a bit about the history of Apollo 8 and the historical significance of Apollo 8.

It would become a matter of historical record that the Apollo 8 engine burn would succeed, that the crew would settle safely into orbit

And the point I like to start by making when I talk about Apollo 8 is that if there was one thing clear to the people of NASA

Let's go to the moon in 16 weeks, and let's give the assignment to Apollo 8, because Apollo 8 can do that job.

As the next two days unfolded and as Christmas Eve arrived, the Apollo 8 crew at last sailed into the gravitational influence of the unlikely place

Of all of the astronauts with whom you've spoken, both from Apollo 8 and Apollo 13-- and granted, 13 had its own story--

My question is, as you mentioned, Apollo 8 was the first in very many aspects of space exploration, including relighting

It was only supposedly, again, with the famous Apollo 8 photographs of 1968-- the Apollo 8 photographs of Earth-- that humans first truly grasped their place on the Earth

On Christmas Eve, 1968, the crew of Apollo 8 came out from behind the far side of the moon on their fourth orbit.

And precisely one year before the Apollo 8 astronauts were hurdling through space on their journey to the moon,

But whether or not this pale blue dot, by the way I consider this picture of the earthrise from the Apollo 8, from that horrible year, 1968.