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With testimony peace and hope for all mankind. >> a war raging in vietnam budget demands raging in washington. the program itself continued in 1970s the u.s. launched a space station and then there was a joint mission with the russians called apollo soyuz. then the space shuttle, amazing but through the years budget cuts every year bit by bit the u.s. pulling back and others more than happy to fill the gap. russia china, independent i independent -- india. japan. the country space relegated to h...

To ever look down on the earth and see it as its entirety as an orb floating in space, it turns out that is not just a scientific achievement, that really is something, and so, they said so. >> we are now approaching lunar sunrise, and for all the people back on earth, the crew of "apollo 8" have a message that we would like to send to you. in the beginning, god created the heaven and the earth, and the earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep, and the spirit of...

They took this famous picture of the earth rise, the earth rising instead of the sun rising, and no human being had ever seen that before, and it turns out that being the first creatures to ever look down on the earth and see it as its entirety as an orb floating in space, it turns out that is not just a scientific achievement, that really is something, and so, they said so. >> we are now approaching lunar sunrise, and for all the people back on earth, the crew of "apollo 8" have a message that ...

And from the crew of "apollo 8," we close with goodnight, good luck, a merry christmas, and god bless all of you, all of you on the good earth. >> bless you all, all of you on the good earth, from way up here, where humans have never been before, where you guys look awesome. that was 45 years ago tomorrow, christmas eve, and millions of people heard that first ever broadcast from space. today in chicago, they re-enacted that live broadcast from space with astronaut jim lovell taking turns, readi...

Have ever been able to look down at the earth and see the planet. they took this famous picture of the earth rise, the earth rising instead of the sun rising, and no human being had ever seen that before, and it turns out that being the first creatures to ever look down on the earth and see it as its entirety as an orb floating in space, it turns out that is not just a scientific achievement, that really is something, and so, they said so. >> we are now approaching lunar sunrise, and for all the...

Earth. and the gathering together of the waters called the seas. and god saw that it was good. and from the crew of "apollo 8," we close with goodnight, good luck, a merry christmas, and god bless all of you, all of you on the good earth. >> bless you all, all of you on the good earth, from way up here, where humans have never been before, where you guys look awesome. that was 45 years ago tomorrow, christmas eve, and millions of people heard that first ever broadcast from space. today in chicag...

Nothing weighs anything and it should be easy but it isnt. you still have to move the stuff around. >> i want to ask you about something that came across maybe a week or so ago about the chinese landing on the moon. have we heard more about that? have we seen definitive proof? >> oh, yeah, they are sending pictures. theres pretty neat time lapse photos of the rover coming off the chinese lander and that rover is doing research on the surface of the moon. were getting little updates about that. i...

Celebration for after you came back? >> well, partly. but i planned ahead of time, and i gave my wife a present that essentially the card said, "from the man on the moon." [ laughter ] >> apollo 8 showed everyone up, certainly the soviets. but while america was now leading the space race, the end of the decade and jfks deadline were quickly approaching. coming up, there was only one giant step left to take on the pathway to the moon, and it would mark an epic moment in human history. [ male anno...

Astronaut, not a cosmonaut, would be the first to fly around the moon. >> it was one of the big gambles that nasa at the direction of the president took in order to establish that america was better than the soviet union. >> a big gamble indeed. and for all, it was less than two years before that apollo 1 demonstrated just how complex every mission was. nobody knew that better than frank hormen, the point man in the apollo investigation. nasa tapped him to man the latest mission. >> i was called...

Claiming lbjs presidency and alienating millions of americans. against this turbulent backdrop, nasa resumed its manned flights and aimed to test in space the craft that it hoped to land on the moon before years end. a sudden change of plans turned apollo 8 into another make-or-break mission. >> apollo 8 was not going to be a lunar flight. apollo 8 was going to be an orbital flight to test the lunar module in earth orbit to make sure everything was correct with the two vehicles before we ever co...