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Oliseh first frustration humiliation and anger that blew up in may sixty eight and good in the voice of this one woman factory worker caught on camera for the elite film school students. nine hundred sixty eight is drawing to a close. of christmas the crew of apollo eight back from lunar orbit send us by these images of the earth as we've never seen it. this earth moved on coming up on one side and seems so peaceful. oh must.

Peace will come. >> apollo sullivan starts the first american push to the moon. today on this flight all but finished the chans of reaching the moon by the end of next year. >> five, four -- we have ignition. >> on the basis of this spectacular success in apollo seven, it will be possible now for the next mission, that's apollo eight, three americans in orbit around the moon on christmas. i think we have some late words on -- and interrupt to bring this to you. this is the latest disclosure in the report from national defensive headquarters in washington. it has been established that

>> 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 of the 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 earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep. >> to have the guy...

Creation. >> good night, good luck, a 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 kind's first 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 ends. apollo 8 achieved every one of its major mission ames and something else.

>> the engine burn will slow them down from 5,700 to about 3,700 miles an hour. they'll 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. >> we have to have absolute faith in everything that has ever been done to develop this rocket motor. all they can do is point it in the right direction, press a button and hope it works perfectly. >> apollo 8 houston, over. >> go ahead. >> we've got it. we've got it.