Three men ride the first crewed Saturn V off the Earth, and on Christmas Eve, rolling their ship over the far side of the Moon, they see their home come up over its horizon.
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Borman · Lovell · Anders
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377,000 km
Orbits
Ten
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Apollo 8Earthrise
Cape Kennedy · 21 – 27 December 1968
Apollo 8 was the third flight of the Saturn V and the first to carry people. Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders were the first humans to leave Earth orbit, the first to see the whole Earth at once, and the first to see the far side of the Moon with their own eyes. On 24 December 1968, on their fourth of ten orbits, they watched the Earth rise over the Moon’s horizon, and Anders photographed it. That picture, AS08-14-2383, became one of the most famous ever taken. They splashed down safely in the Pacific on 27 December.