It Happened on Christmas Day

In 1968, children view the television broadcast from NASA's Apollo 8 spacecraft during the first successful Trans Earth Injection maneuver
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To Boldly Watch
NASA's Apollo 8 broadcast live from space in 1968 during their journey around the moon. The transmission was the most watched television program ever up to that time.

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