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| May 20, 2013
Apollo 8: Live from the Moon, 1968
Dec. 24, 1968: Watch the actual live television transmission from the crew of Apollo 8, orbiting the moon on Christmas Eve, 1968. Astronauts William Anders, James Lovell and Frank Borman (in that order) read the opening lines from the Book of Genesis in the Bible, to a rapt audience of an estimated two billion people back on Earth.