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On Christmas Eve 1968, one of the largest audiences in television history tuned in to an extraordinary sight: a live telecast of the moon's surface as seen from Apollo 8, the first manned space flight to leave Earth's gravitational pull and orbit the moon. The historic journey captivated people around the world.
As this documentary reveals, however, the mission's success was far from assured. The Apollo 8 astronauts had just four months to prepare for the risky lunar orbit, and catastrophic failure would have brought a halt to America's goal of putting a man on the moon before the end of the decade.
This film recounts the flight many consider to be NASA's most daring and important. Interviews with Apollo 8 astronauts, their wives, mission control staff, and journalists take viewers inside the high-stakes space race of the late 1960s to reveal how a bold decision by NASA administrators put a struggling Apollo program back on track and allowed America to reach the moon before the Soviets.
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On Christmas Eve 1968, one of the largest audiences in television history tuned in to an extraordinary sight: a live telecast of the moon's surface as seen from Apollo 8, the first manned space flight to leave Earth's gravitational pull and orbit the moon. The historic journey captivated people around the world.
Wrong. Yes people tuned in to false information. Stop Lying.
No one went to the moon 😊.
@@bluesky6985 Is that because the Earth is flat?
I remember watching this live. I followed James Lovell's history in space fight. Little did I know that his niece was in my class.
I found out his niece was in my class during Apollo 13. Our whole class went down to watch the splash down on the largest color TV in the school.
@@TheLittlered1961 Apollo 13 was a scam
I was 18 at the time, a top science student and an insufferable nerd. It never crossed my mind back then that anyone could doubt this happened, because it seemed obvious that we had the technology, the money, and the will to do it. I've since chatted with many Apollo deniers, and most of them are either too young to have experienced it live, or have so little understanding of physics and technology that their opinions are worthless.
I was a teenager during Apollo, and a science nerd as well. Became an engineer, recently retired. It's sad that with so much information at your fingertips today that people are seduced by RUclips conspiracies, accepting them at face value without any verification. And you are right, listening to many of their comments makes it obvious that they do not understand science and technology, nor do they know anything about the Apollo program. Yet they speak if it with great confidence. They are a small minority, but I fear their numbers may be growing, as we get farther away from the events.
Well! I saw it on telly IRL....but we never went. Sorry to say!
@@SPDATA1 So I guess you fit in the second category. How did they fake the Moon rocks? Or being tracked to the Moon and back? Those are unfakeable even today.
@@SPDATA1 "I saw it on telly IRL...", and that's the extent of your knowledge on the subject, so in your mind it never happened. Maybe you shouldn't comment on things you know nothing about.
Funny, studying physics and engineering in college is what helped me get over the cognitive dissonance and realize this is all a huge lie! In what field is your degree?
Yes I remember this so well - I was 13 and it was Christmas day here in Australia as far as I remember - we all held our breath as Apollo 8 disappeared behind the moon. What a time for a teenage boy to be alive!
I was 15...🌈😃👍🌈
I was 8 years old and spent Christmas vacation following the flight. What a time it was. Yes, Apollo 8 saved 68.
I was also 8 years old.
To be honest, I can’t remember watching the Apollo 8 mission, but I can vividly remember watching those that followed.
I remenber it well. My oarents had just replaced our old black and white TV, with a brand new RCA Color Console. We had the family over for Christmas, with a dozen grandkids running about. We kids spent our Christmas watching Color, Cartoons and Cronkite. Since liftoff a few days earlier, my parents, my 4yr old sister and i had been glued to the broadcasts whenever they were on.
I had the privilege of being at the Cape for this launch. I was a (very) young USAF Information Officer taking a group of VIPs from Eglin AFB to see the liftoff. My chest vibrated when the rocket roared to life. I recently came across the slides I took, and am still in awe of the technology that was evidenced that day. It did indeed save 1968!
awesome story and wow how cool is that?!
How true is this story?
I'm not going to
Believe much anymore?
I was there. I felt it. I saw it. I heard it. Thousands of people around me saw it, heard it and felt it take off. I have photos that I took with my camera. It was real. @@ben8405
it's was just showtime...fake ...
@@Vic-hl7wm Try and prove it, then you might convince someone.
Apollo 8 in some respects is a greater feat than Apollo 11. It was a "go for broke" mission to put the Apollo program back on schedule after the tragedy of Apollo 1 that killed three astronauts, a launchpad test that reveled the fatal flaws of the command module. Without the success of this flight, there would have been no Apollo 11, no Neil Armstrong proclaiming "That's one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind".
I was a college student, turning 21 on December 25th. Looking back, this magnificent achievemen was the best birthday present I ever received.
Amazing documentary, True heroes, In school we used to watch All of the Take off in school. But apollo eight took off during christmas break, Brought back a lot of memories. The crew reading the bible as they orbit at the moon, Truly amazing. Brought tears to my eyes. And the photograph of the Earth.
It's truly amazing, When you look at the earth from space, You truly see how fragile it is and all alone. One day I believe there will be total peace on earth, I could go on, But remember the words, In the beginning
As a 8 year old I watched the launch and Christmas Eve message on my 12 b/w Tv.
Me too, in Belgium
Superb documentary which brought back wonderful memories of when I was a young teenager and watched theses events as they happened. Nothing can compare with those magic days of the Apollo Space Program. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it
I remember it well as a young man, stayed glued to all the updates, and it was around Christmas😊
I listen fo radio abaut Apollo-11 on loon in 1969 wen a will in Mikolajv Ukrayn. This vil bi fantastik.
Must be true then if you can remember it was around Christmas.
I love that near final line "Thanks, you made 1968". And I remember Japanese reporters who'd never heard the Genesis story ask about where to get a copy. They were told in the Bible in each of their hotel rooms.
I was 17 and a Junior in High School and watched all this live as it happened.
I was18 and a Senior when the U.S. landed Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin on the Moon in December 1969 and I also watched it live.
In March 1972 I was in USAF Basic Training when Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin visited Lackland AFB in San Antonio and I got his Autograph on the back of a "Gig Slip", since lost.
It was Easter Sunday, April 2, 1972, one week before Graduation.
I remember that Christmas Eve, exactly where I was, and the exultation I experienced as an eleven year old boy sitting on the floor in my uncle's living room. And when they read from Genesis it deeply moved my heart. And I can still hear, like it just happened, their sign off: "Good night, good luck, merry Christmas, and God bless all of you, all of you on the good earth."
Great Doc.
I grew up with this program.
Any Boomer who came of age during this time went forward throughout their career with this spirit of excellence in mind.We are are pretty much done now...
...I wish current younger generations are able to find an inspiration for their lives that is similar to what we had.
Gen X here and ib take quite a lot of inspiration from the early space program, especially Apollo 8 and 13 and the great Commander Lovell. Who's still alive by the way.
By God, I'm shocked, a gen z that can think. 😅
Thank you for the very interesting video please keep the great videos coming from Scotland 😊
greetings to Scotland and we will!
Great documentary of an extraordinary historical achievement. As young as I was this made me so proud to be an American.
This mission, combined with Apollo 11 were among America's greatest achievements - indeed, the world. I was four & a half when this historic event transpired, & I can recall my parents - & their friends - in constant conversation; if only I had been old enough to appreciate their excitement at that time; the Lunar Landing, some seven months later, was for me, even more exciting; my older brother, Simon, took great pains to explain to me what was going on - at least as much as a thirteen year old could - he was very technically astute, & more than happy to impart his knowledge to me; it was that enthusiasm that encouraged my own subsequent research into what was beyond the earth's outer limits.....& for that I remain ever greatful. Simon was killed on the last day of May, 1970; he was fourteen; not a day goes by when I don't wonder what he would be doing (now) in this twenty-first century....
RIP to all the astronauts that have paid with their lives 🙏
Three were murdered. 🚀☠☠☠
RIP you your mental capacity thinking anyone was actually inside any of those model rockets
@@David-cv1se just showing my respect to all the astronauts that have lost their lives all the fatal accidents that have occurred in the past, nothing wrong with that is there 🤷♂️
Yes three were murdered. 🚀☠☠☠☠
@@David-cv1se I'm sorry your education system failed you so badly.
When this happened, I was 10 years old and a believer in the bible, etc. because that's how I was taught.
Nowadays, I'm not even close to being a religious man but the reading of the creation story is still over-the-top poignant for me!
I remember the flight like it was yesterday. What shocked me was how audacious it was. NASA was driven by an engineering culture which demands incremental steps towards reaching a goal. Apollo 8 went to the moon after the first Apollo flight which was a test drive of Saturn V and the systems in the command module. ( This, after almost two years of reengineering the command module after the Apollo 6 fire.)
The "Space Race" was still real which motivated the decision to try for the moon.
How high were the risks? Lovell's wife asked Gene Krantz head of mission control. He told her that it was a fifty percent chance that the astronauts would make it back alive. Apollo 13 verified how dangerous this new technology was.
Apollo 8 is NASA's boldest mission till this day!
I was 17 at the time it was an astonishing achievement.
As a Canadian, the reason this mission still resonates with me to this day is not only was it an American achievement but you brought the rest of us along with you.
In my opinion it had an even greater impact on our civilization than Apollo 11.
And that Christmas Eve telecast was one for the ages.
I was thinking the same thing. the crew of Apollo 8 were the first to get to the Moon. Apollo 11 only went one step further than Apollo 8 and landed on the Moon. Apollo 8 crew were pioneers.
Agreed. It was almost spiritual the Apollo 8 mission was.
Still tear up a little when I see the vid of them doing the Genesis broadcast.
Mankind achievement!
@@Scottocaster6668 A plaque on the descent stage of the Eagle reads, "Here men from the planet Earth first set foot on the moon, July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind "
I wasn't born yet but seems awesome
Great doc. Uplifting. Thx. So proud of everyone involved and so honored to be alive during this window of time in the Earth’s history. -Shows what we can accomplish when we focus and pull together. Cheers.
I remember this mission so well. Fabulous documentary.
No np no!
No!
@@ben8405 Triggered much?
Very moving documentary. Brought me to tears.
Excellent cinematography for the time
It’s all fiction …. Don’t be sad
come on grow tf up not even small girls cry to this 🤣
@@danielcharles4451Are you fiction?
Very good documentary, thank you for posting it
Thank you - The memories of this event and the moon landing were indelibly etched on my mind as an 11 year old boy from South Africa following it all on radio (no TV). I will never forget the emotions it brought forth. Feels like yesterday to me.
fake
@@Vic-hl7wm Nope.
I'm glad they got home safe.
The Apollo 11 crew are my hero’s…but honestly if talking guts…the of Apollo 8 took a massive risk…they really were going into uncharted territory which paved the way for the moon landings .❤
The most epic space mission ever
30:06 Oh, silly little lady...THAT'S when the MOON'S out! Now let's get those snacks out there!
The inner strength of the spouses is a lesson in courage and love.
Eu tinha 14 anos na época que saudade!
To those who disbelieve, I would simply say, that’s your right to think so. But, for the remainder of us, we can enjoy knowing what we believe to be so. I don’t believe in God, but I’m happy to let those who do to carry on doing so. See? I don’t need to make comments to them, I happily exist side by side with them. Try it yourselves, you will feel less angry and frustrated. ‘Cause you know what? We just don’t care what you say 😊
Nasa going nowhere since 1958.
You never went there. You can't physically verify that ANYONE went there & you can't physically prove your fantasy land of space exists
so the moon samples sent to labs all over the world are fake too? You clearly enjoy insulting the intelligence of many thousands of academic who are even now finding new insights into the moon's composition@@David-cv1se
You can't believe God exists either, yet plenty do.
@PeteYeado There's a BIG difference between believing & factual physical evidence which of course you can't provide nor can anyone else
Amazing Journey 👏👏🙏🙏
Jim Lovell, way to go!
Waiting for Artimis to walk on the moon in the
2026 Space Odyssey!
kaloni mire pushoni qet. vikend. ju pershendes
We actually landed on the Moon with a year to spare. The last year of the decade was 1970.
My question -- Why can't we do great things like this again? The Apollo program may not have solved all the problems in the world, but it brought people together, if only for a short time. We could use something inspirational like that now.
"Again!" 😅 We can't do these things because the earth is a flat, infinite plane with our "world" bound by the ice wall beyond our local sun's influence, the "firmament" of heaven above us separating the "waters" above that from us, and God knows what beneath us, and other "worlds" with their own local suns, at various points on the flat infinite frozen plane. Maybe! Why not? No less proof of that than the NASA B.S.!
Apple Computers and Microsoft are pretty great.
@@seaturtledog God bless!
All of this was just wonderful and awe-inspiring. Crazy how back then humans had their eyes on the universe and space, and now on their screens and smartphones. @35:00 those were powerful words.
That was awesome!
I was a rocket baby! Born at Cape Canaveral in 1961. My dad was a fighter pilot and they really wanted him to be an astronaut. He said he 'wasn't about to strap his butt to a bottle rocket'.
I was born a day after they returned to earth.
nobody “returned to earth”
… 🤦🏻 you are not newborn baby anymore , you are man in uniform willing to sacrifice your life to defend freedom and democracy & american way of life blah blah blah
17:00 - I'll never forget that Time Magazine cover!!!
I kept our copy of it for years but eventually, I lost it.
Most people forget that we (the U.S.) did all of our spaceflights in full view of the world which compounds the embarrassment of any failures, whereas the Soviets hid everything from the public until they had a success!
Theoretically, they could have sent thirty men on Moon missions with all of them dying before finally having success and shouting, "Look at how great we are!!" when in fact, they were nothing of the kind.
Gagarin didn't fly his spacecraft, it was controlled 100% from the ground, so technically, he did little more than Laika! Still, you gotta give the guy credit! Flying on Soviet spaceflights was the epitome of bravery! I'm amazed that the spacecraft took off considering the size of his balls! He was a true pro and probably could have piloted his craft if necessary, I don't really know how much leeway he was given if things went sideways on him.
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Alan Shepherd and John Glenn both controlled their crafts and it took amazing piloting skills for their missions to be successful!
One of the reasons, I think, that Apollo 11 was successful, was because we had pilots who could take control and complete missions when a computer was incapable of pulling it off on its own.
Amazin'. Sadly today NASA and corporations, landed a robot on the moon, more than 50 years from this epic journey...
Nothing sad about that though.
well If you say so...@@JonnoPlays
@andrese.castillo8869 what's sad about it?
@@eq1373 connect the dots my friend
The comments on this video made me lose brain cells. Flat earthers out in force these days.
Yes this was truly a great mission!! This was yester year and to day
The fact that we did all that with that level of technology is amazing.
They didn't its impossible
@@tonynoaa3950 ya they have never been up there its all a lie
@@Bailey-zn2je people believe anything if they don't know the facts.
Kidneys man. Kidneys
The crucial technologies, rocketry, radio, and computers, had been invented decades earlier.
He's working that gum
i was born in 57 i watched it
I am still mesmerized how inspiring Kennedy's words obviously were, resulting in the USA actually achieve the goal before the decade was over. Goes to show he was loved and admired by everybody. And he deserved to be. In my opinion he was the best human being ever to have been president, with Obama a very close second. I write this from the hart, not motivated by any political point of view. I'm not even American. I am from Europe. Ok, the will to beat the Russians definitely was a very strong motivation, but still...
I was six years old when on vacation in Italy, together with my father I watched on a portable black and white tv how Armstrong made his first steps on the moon. Something I will never forget as long as I will live.
I think you lost a lot of people at Obama.
@@eq1373 Are you in this for popularity reasons? I am not, so your comment is pointless. After the Trump disaster every other former president has gone up significantly on the popularity scale. Besides, if Obama is so unpopular according to you, how come he was elected and than re-elected? And how come most of the RUclips videos on Obama to this day go viral? Moreover, assuming to be speaking for other people is a sign of narcissism. I don't understand your urge to politicize matters. I was clearly reffering to the human beings, not the politicians. Are you MAGA? If you are going to respond please do not litter the comment area with conspiracy theories. I am resting my case no matter what, so you might want to save yourself the bother and potential (further) embarrassment.
"Good Stuff," merci.
Poor old jim lovell, travelled to the moon more then any other man and never stood on it.
Well he wouldn't be famous if he did walk on the moon but true I'd rather walk on the moon
@@michealnyers184 Probably wouldnt have been played by tom hanks in a film,thats true
John Young and Gene Cernan both got two trips as well, ( The first in Apollo 10 ) but were lucky enough to reach the surface on their next flight.
Фантастіка. Всєго через 25 років після полєта першой ракети фон Брауна, Человєк прілєтєл на луну!!!!
Robert Godard should not be discounted..he inspired Von Braun..
👍👍👍
One of the best documentaries I've ever watched.
🤣
nice ,i miss the wisdom of george and pete,a la blacks rd.❤from jase
💜💜💜✨✨
Always thing of Filoe Beddoe when I hear the role “FDO” … or Fido the dog… 🐶
I was living in Honolulu and was watching on my small black and white TV when I heard those tremendous words, those true words from Genesis chapter 1
Apollo 8 was the only rewarding event of an otherwise disastrously eventful year. He was right--"Apollo 8 did SAVE 1968."
Wow this really bluw my mind
Blew#
you mind is so fragile
We saw it on TV so it must be real.
"You can tell it's real because it looks so fake." - Elon Musk
Not to mention scientists all over the world were monitoring the fight including Russians and none claimed it was faked … interesting that
Or it is fake like All Apollo missions.🙃😎
❤❤❤ it looks so real! I love it!
Thanks for not having Gene Kranz explaining what a great man he is.
Kranz did not work Apollo 8, it was Cliff Charlesworth as Lead Flight, Glynn Lunney, who did the big moment of LOI, and the new guys Gerry Griffin and Milt Windler. So for once Lunney gets the credit he deserves. On console, he was the best anyway as lots of the controllers of the time confirm. He was just mich more humble and never sought the limelight... It was him who did the most important shift on Apollo 13, but as the movie completely focused on Kranz, very few people know, especially as Glynn never bragged about it in public.
It took big balls.
I was in the school when this happened. God bless America 🇺🇸
Awesome picture of Earth from the Moon.
There are no pictures of the earth from the moon.
@@tonynoaa3950 The 1 in the film picture. I saw it in 1987. You telling me it not real?
@@user-md2bt8tt1n yes it isn't real.
@@tonynoaa3950 No, Earthrise is real, just like all of the other photos taken by the Apollo missions.
@@Hobbes746 😂😂😂😂
I liked it when they drove that dune buggy and played golf on the moon!
They can't supply you a picture of what they left on the moon.😮 try to find one.
@@AA-ke5cu I found hundreds of photos of the Apollo sites taken by Japanese probe and the Lunar Recon probe. I guess you can't find what you don't want to see. You keep lying and denying and we'll keep proving you wrong. :)
@@AA-ke5cu I found loads. You're not looking.
@@rozzgrey801
FFS..😆"any sign of🎥Kubrick's🐐
It was all a big🏁🤺 *con* 😳
@@amarshmuseconcepta6197 Are you trying to say something?
They did this on orders of magnitudes less computing power than we have in watches today.
No, they had some pretty powerful programming brought to bear, the problem was the computers took up whole floors of dedicated computer rooms, so they had to stay on the ground. The data was then uploaded to the spacecraft.
During the Apollo 13 crisis they basically confiscated all the university mainframes around the country to crunch their numbers.
Also, calculating orbital mechanics is not all that processor hungry. Any modern computer game requires thousands of times the power.
1:35 picture of a family from the fifties, says it all
Late 60's, actually
What an amazing generation - always keep God first. Always acknowledge Him in everything you do. The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost - three in one God.
52:50 "The Blue Marble" photo.
I love how the astronauts read from the book of Genesis in the Bible when they spoke to the world. My respect for them went wayyy past that same moon after that. 🖤🌙
that’s not what your gauge for respect of a person should be based upon, you can respect a person without agreeing with the same ideas and beliefs. Respect for a person (the astronauts in this instance) is seeing that they are a good person, brave, knowledgeable in their field, and their own beliefs, and many other types of qualities; however, you ALSO must be able to agree to disagree with and respect people whose beliefs and opinions differ from yours.
1:27 Flight operations director says 50/50 chance of safe return? I don’t believe this could be a complete quotation, while the risk was very high, I don’t believe they would have received the go ahead were the odds that bad. A failure would have jeopardized the entire program.
His wife quotes it word for word later on
40:06 here you go
What was never really clear is if Kraft meant 50:50 about mission success or 50:50 about survival. The latter is what Susan Borman understood, but Kraft in some interviews was more ambiguos, more leaning to the mission success version...
....dah the Decade was running out, as the funding spree...
NASA mission Director had said least 30 would die trying for that giant Leap.
"Threlfall’s was the first official wager in the Space Race, and the odds were not in his favor: Famous bookmakers William Hill allowed him odds of 1,000 to 1 “for any man, woman or child, from any nation on Earth, being on the Moon, or any other planet, star or heavenly body of comparable distance from Earth, before January, 1971.”
What lunar bettors didn’t know was that NASA also gave the moon landing long odds. Only months before Threlfall’s wager, a NASA-commissioned risk assessment had forecast the chance of successfully fulfilling Kennedy’s decreed moon landing at just 1 in 20."
Even positive Crew after "successful Journeys" >>> ”Armstrong told interviewers on the flight’s 30th anniversary, “but only a 50-50 chance of making a landing on that first attempt.” Buzz Aldrin had it about there too. “I think we will escape with our skins,” Michael Collins wrote in a NASA history, “but I wouldn’t give better than even odds on a successful landing and return. There are just too many things that can go wrong.”
I remember project Apollo....
It was just a slingshot trip in advance of an actual landing for testing
No, it was not a slingshot mission, went into orbit for a lot of orbits.
Sure, but a slingshot over 270,00 miles, designed to come within 64 miles of tge surface. And then hit an imaginary spot in the ocean.
No biggee.
"Our Germans are better than Their Germans"
It's just a blue ball floating in space. Jeeez. Where's the stack of turtles?? We need something.
Where is that Firmament which the
Buy-Bull Bangers preach about
What did the first Apollo 1-7 do?
Apollo 1 caught on fire and killed the Astronauts.
Apollo 2 - 6 were test flights.
I can’t remember Apollo 7
@@Eskimo8888Actually, 2 and 3 never happened when everything was turned upside down after the fire, 4 and 6 were test flights for the SaturnV, 5 a test of the LM, flown with the Saturn IB. Apollo 7 was the first crewed flight, testing out the new, modified Block 2 Command Module in LEO, launched on the Saturn IB as well. Crew was Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walt Cunningham. It was a very important flight for the program, "Return to Flight" after the fire, and the basis for making the final decision to really go "all in" for Apollo 8. But as it was "only" a LEO flight, it is often overlooked nowadays or only remembered for the problems between mainly Schirra and Mission Control.
Collins' book covers the Gemini and Apollo history.
W0w, I forgot all about the bible verses being spoken during this.
Imagine an alien race listening in on that and thinking what kind of crazy species this must be.
Yes, it is easy to see how a God-less species, one that fancies itself so smart they created themselves using only their own time and materials, would find folly in something that sows doubt that they actually did....
I bet you’re really fun at parties
Truth may not make everyone happy, but the truth is the truth. Thanks for your comment.
Imagine Aliens being Theist, way to go to create Life out of chemicals soup.
It was an amazing time for the USA. What’s sad is we have thousands of times the computing power and propulsion tech today that we had back then. Why haven’t we gone back? The country has lost the drive and pride and cohesiveness to pull it off! Now Congress can’t even make a decision. Opposing sides can’t be in a room together. Everyone in the media seems to have decided their job is to breed hate. I’m not sure we will ever have the capability as a country to pull something like this off again. I’m so glad I’ve lived when I am and remember these wonderful times for the country.
Well said. The country was at odds back then, but not to the magnitude it is today.
Elon just launched ANOTHER rocket to the moon... The US may not have "it" anymore, but SpaceX sure does!!!
I was going to say the same thing. Wonder why we haven't gone back? Not sure if it will happen again?
Rembering the contribution of Katherine Johnson [NASA mathematician]
Lots of us are glad she got recognized.
I was expecting the comment section to be peppered with people who are unconvinced, but almost all comments are quite appreciative. Well done everyone.
I have a copy of the National Geographic which wrote up the story of Apollo 8. The headline on the magazine's cover wrote, "A most fantastic voyage." I always thought that to be such an appropriate cover headline.😎
Most in-credible if Space specs are real.
Glynn Lunney born and raised in Old Forge Pa.
Really? Go Penna.!
At Paul’s cathedral couldn’t be easily replicated today either .
Man those guys had some serious big ones 😂. 🎩 off to you guys!!
Suicidal maniacs!😮
Mais quand je lis les commentaires sur cette mission d'apolo 8 , j'ai eu du mal à comprendre que le niveau intellectuel des Américains était pas plus que 10 ans, la naïveté de ces citoyens ont commencé à douter de la vérité de l'assassinat de JFK et surtout du 11/09/2001..…
The myth that Frank Borman had the "24 hour flu" still persists. In reality he was space sick. He was feeling queasy and then took a Seconal sleeping tablet, which then wreaked havoc on his already upset digestive system.
One more reason why I'm proud to have been born in a time to witness great events like this first hand and to be able to relive it using today's technology.
Apollo 8 came at the end of 1968, a year had seen much upheaval in the United States and most of the world. Even though the year saw political assassinations, political unrest in the streets of Europe and America, and the Prague Spring, Time magazine chose the crew of Apollo 8 as its Men of the Year for 1968, recognizing them as the people who most influence events in the preceding year.
When the world still had no doubts about the good intentions of the U.S.....countless imperialist wars later sadly have changed that perception.
Boy has that ever changed.. an for good reason
The U.S. invaded Mexico and took Texas long before.
Eu rtenho a revista MANCHETE até hoje
We will do it again it's inevitable
5:04 I can’t be the only one who hears the Goldeneye rocket firing sound here
The country that accomplished this is long gone
Unified, to a certain degree.
Then there's the Administration that killed it.
It remains a historic accomplishment that USA was first to put a human on the lunar surface.
Really? With Elon Musk planning to send people to Mars? Which is 1000 times harder than going to the moon! Sounds like America is not gone at all!
NASA SP287 " WHAT MADE APOLLO A SUCCESS ? "
" of course , the way we got this job done was with meeting , big meetings , little meeting hundreds of meetings !
( " the thing we always tried to do in these meetings was to encourage every one no matter how shy to speak out !!! " )
WHY encourage every one NO MATTER HOW SHY TO SPEAK SOMETHING OUT !!! IS ULTIMATE SECRET TO
" MADE APOLLO A SUCCESS ? "
you CAN GO TO THE MOON WITH " DON'T SHY TO SPEAK SOMETHING OUT ? "