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It was brilliantly written show and a great performance by that entire young cast. >> hey, steve -- looks like his baby brother and girlfriend have found each other. >> shes not my girlfriend. >> kevin arnold has to cope with all the timeless problems of growing up during one of the most turbulent times that weve known. >> kevin arnold is just like a regular kid except in the 1960s, and hes not really aware of many of the events. like in one of the episodes, the whole family is watching the apol...

Known. >> kevin arnold is just like a regular kid except in the 1960s, and hes not really aware of many of the events. like in one of the episodes, the whole family is watching the apollo 8 take off, but im just sitting there trying to call a girl. >> the first episode of "the wonder years," anybody who saw it remembers the ending where the first kiss with winnie and kevin arnold. the song they play is "when a man loves a woman." that moment seemed so pure and so real. ♪ when a man loves a wom...

Four, three, two, one. zero. we have liftoff. what a beautiful flight. man perhaps on the way to the moon if all continues to go well. >> it seemed almost unbelievable the nation collectively held its breath, worrying about, are they going to make it? what happens to the astronauts, to the space program if they dont? such a miraculous thing, its against the odds. but maybe. maybe we can make it. >> apollo, we have good picture. >> this is coming to you halfway from between the moon and the earth...

Peace will come. ♪ it will be you and i >> apollo 7 starts the final american push to the moon. today on this flight all but finished the chance of reaching the moon by the end of next year. >> five, four -- we have ignition. >> on the basis of this spectacular success of apollo 7, it will be possible now for the next mission, thats apollo 8, three americans in orbit around the moon on christmas. i think we have some late word just arriving. i interrupt to bring this to you. this is the latest...

Merry christmas and god bless all of you. all of you on the good earth. >> god bless them. unbelievable. >> man, that made the last week of 1968 perhaps as hopeful a moment as we could have expected. >> for those of us who lived through that time, we were landing in darkness that does not last. >> apollo 8. human kinds first flight in the orbit of the moon. sure to be written on the books of history. a year of trouble and turbulence, anger and assassination, is now coming to an end in incandesce...

>> weve got it. weve got it. apollo 8 now in lunar orbit. there is a cheer in the room. >> its a pretty nice view of the moon. it is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize what you have back there on earth. >> when they were coming around from the far side of the moon, bill anders looked through his side window and saw the earth rising. >> oh, my god. look at that picture over there. theres the earth coming up. wow, isnt that pretty? >> and he snapped a picture. >> when the pictures started comi...

>> tonight the crew of apollo 8 presents a christmas eve program from the heavens. >> with a few orbits to go, they made one last television transmission. the public affairs director had said, there will be more people watching that television show than have ever witnessed any event in human history, say something appropriate. >> for all the people back on earth, the crew of apollo 8 has a message that we would like to send to you. in the beginning, god created the heaven and the earth. and the ...

Moon where theres no radio contact with mission control. >> apollo 8 will be moving backwards with that engine maneuver. it will slow them down from 5,700 to 3,700 miles per hour. theyll have put themselves into lunar orbit, the first men in history to have done so. and the trickiest and most dangerous part of their flight. >> you could have any one of a number of things go wrong. end up in the wrong orbit or hit the moon. >> well see you on the other side. >> we have to have absolute faith in e...

That entire young staff. >> hey, steve -- looks like his baby brother and girlfriend have found each other. >> shes not my girlfriend. >> kevin arnold has to cope with all the timeless problems of growing up during one of the most turbulent times that weve known. >> kevin arnold is just like a regular kid except in the 1960s, and hes not really aware of many of the events. like in one of the episodes, the whole family is watching the apollo 8 take off, but im sitting there trying to call a girl....

[ cheers and applause ] >> t plus 30 seconds if you can hear me over the cheering. falcon heavy on our test flying building on history of apollo, returning interplanetary mission. getting ready to throttle down. [ cheers and applause ] >> you heard the callout. vehicle is supersonic. side boosters are now throttling back up to full power. we are past max q, period of