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Each other with a spacecraft on the very top with three guys in it. and you knew that that sucker was going someplace. it had a purpose in mind and it was going someplace. >> you get to december of 1968 and frank borman and jim lovell and bill anders have actually been training to fly the first flight around the moon. >> we kind of feel that this flight set the pace to begin the in earnest our lunar landing apollo program. >> the countdown to liftoff for apollo 8 is now t-minus 50 minutes and co...

They fired the third stage and sent them hurling on the three-day journey to the moon. >> what does the old moon like? >> the moon is essentially gray, no color. >> as we came into earth rise we were shocked, dumbfounded almost to see this earth coming up. we hadnt seen it before. we werent briefed about it. and so there was a scramble for cameras. >> reporter: on christmas eve while orbiting the moon this picture was photographed by the landers. this shot has become one of the most reproduced s...

Pontiff placed a statue of the baby jesus in a replica of a manger in st. peters basilica. his focus was on the humble beginnings and the vulnerability of the christ child. the ceremony coming as he celebrated his first christmas eve mass as leader of the catholic church. and there is an out-of-this world event many people were talking about christmas morning 48 years ago today. just hours earlier, on christmas eve, the crew of apollo 8 astronauts frank foreman, bill anders and jim lovell took...

Why couldnt they get out? >> the hatch was on the inside pressing against the hull. so to remove the hull, you had to turn it in. when the fire started, you have 50,000 pounds pressure holding that door in place. >> all three men were dead. >> we lived near the wife of one of the crewmember, pat white. >> bill anders had the unenviable task of breaking the news to the wife of edward white. >> and that was a pretty tough deal. when i stopped in front of the house, she saw me coming, and even thou...

Cameras. >> on christmas eve, while orbiting the moon, this picture titled "earth rise" was photographed by anders. this shot has become one of the most reproduced photographs in history. >> it was the only thing in space that had any color. everyelse was black and white. the earth was blue, white clouds, and brownish-pink continents, and we were a long way from hole, and it was christmas. it was a nostalgic moment. bill anders said it best, we came all the way to the moon and what perked our in...

Bill anders said it best we came to the moon and what got our interest was the earth. >> i vaguely regular that. i will take the credit. >> many of those who have been in space, there are no boundaries between the countries. >> you have more of a true perspective of our existence on earth because you look back at the earth how small it is and how you can cover it up with your thumb and you realize, we were so fortunate to have a body that was in the proper position from the sun, with the proper ...

Around the moon. >> the moon is essentially gray no color. >> as we came into earth rise we were shocked to see this earth coming up. we hadnt seen it before. we werent briefed about it. >> this picture was photographed by bill anders. this shot has become one of the most reproduced space photographs in history. >> it was the only thing in space that had any color everything else was black-and-white. the earth was blue with white clouds and brownish continents. we were a long way from home and i...

Around the moon. >> the moon is essentially gray no color. >> as we came into earth rise we were shocked to see this earth coming up. we hadnt seen it before. we werent briefed about it. >> this picture was photographed by bill anders. this shot has become one of the most reproduced space photographs in history. >> it was the only thing in space that had any color everything else was black-and-white. the earth was blue with white clouds and brownish continents. we were a long way from home and i...

Cameras. >> on christmas eve, while orbiting the moon, this picture titled "earth rise" was photographed by anders. this shot has become one of the most reproduced photographs in history. >> it was the only thing in space that had any color. everyelse was black and white. the earth was blue, white clouds, and brownish-pink continents, and we were a long way from hole, and it was christmas. it was a nostalgic moment. bill anders said it best, we came all the way to the moon and what perked our in...