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Commit them to go to the moon. >> it was a big step forward, apollo eight but america could still be trailing the russians to the moon. >> it would send a spacecraft around the moon with animals to test whether they could test cosmonauts and tried to beat us not on a landing but to go around the moon and they were fairly successful but then in the soviet hierarchy they had a controversy, do we send the cosmonauts and they said send one more time to make sure the c.i.a. would get signals that maybe the soviets were going to try and big figure eight around the moon which would have undercut the ...

>> god said lit the water be in one place and left the dry land appear and he called it earth. ought old testament is the basis of many religions and it affected most of people listening to us so we thought that was very appropriate. >> he relayed a citing that delighted children. >> lebanese -- please be informed there is a santa claus. >> it delays the christmas celebration. >> partly delayed but i planned ahead of time and gave my wife a present that said "from the man in the moon." >> apollo eight showed everyone up, certainly the soviets, but while america was now leading the space race, ...

It affected most of the people that would be listening. we thought that was appropriate. >> they delayed a sighting that would delight children worldwide. >> there is a santa claus. >> a christmas celebration after he came back. >> ahead of time gave my wife a present the card said from the man on the moon. >> skwloefrd one up. >> apollo 8 showed everyone up. while they were beating the space race the end of the decade and jfk's deadline was quickly approaching. >> there was only one giant step left to make. it was make epic moments in human history after this. ♪

Of management over the flight to a lunar orbitabl flight. >> if it worked they would leap across the soviets in a space race. astronaut not a cosmonaut would be the first to fly around the moon. >> it was one of the big gambling that nasa at the direction of the president took in order to establish america was better than the soviet union. >> a big gamble indeed. it was less than two years before aboll low demonstrated how complex how the smallest over site could be fatal. no one knew that better than the point man in the apollo one investigation. nasa asked him to stay on the latest mission. ...

>> when they are in space they are surprised there are no boundaries. >> gives you more of an actual true perspective of our existence on earth. you look back on the ert look how small it is that you could cover it up with your thumb. we realize we were so fortunate to have a body with the proper mass and everything to allow life to begin. >> with the world engrossed in apollo 8 they marked the holiday feast by taking turns reading from the old testament. >> god said let the waters in heaven come to one place and let the dry land appear and it was so. god called the dry land earth. >> old test...