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>> 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...

>> 1968 was a year of chaos and conflict in the united states. martin luther king junior and robert f. kennedy riots engulfing our city the war in vietnam claiming lbj's presidency and alienating millions of americans. against this turbulent backdrop they resumed the flights aimed to test in space. the craft that had hoped to land on the moon before year's end. a sudden change of plan turned apollo 8 into another make or break mission. >> apollo 8 was not going to be a lunar flight. it was going to be an earth orbitable flight to test a module to make sure everything was stirring from two vehi...

>> partly. well, i planned ahead of time and i gave my wife a present. since the card said from the man in the moon. [ laughter ] >> apollo 8 showed everyone up. the sew yets especially. america was leaving the space race, the end of the decade and jfk's deadline quickly approaching. >> neil: our 40th anniversary of being on the moon. fox has specials but "flying to the moon" was superb and inspiring. well done. thank you, colonel. they did the heavy lifting. i went along for the incredible kid in the candy store ride. mark e-mails --

Satellite as it made several passes around the earth. lots of the cool pictures you see like of hurricanes from earth are actually composites. anything close enough to the earth to be held by its gravitational pull is also too close to get a whole earth picture. for perspective, this is what the earth looks like from the international space station. you can't really see the whole thing at once. only a couple dozen earthlings have ever been far enough from the earth to see the whole thing. like the crew of apollo 8, who took this picture commonly known as earth rise from the window of the craft...

Lots of the cool pictures you see like of hurricanes from earth are actually composites. anything close enough to the earth to be held by its gravitational pull is also too close to get a whole earth picture. for perspective, this is what the earth looks like from the international space station. you can't really see the whole thing at once. only a couple dozen earthlings have ever been far enough from the earth to see the whole thing. like the crew of apollo 8, who took this picture commonly known as "earth rise" from the window of the craft as they orbited the moon in 1968. unfortunately, ne...