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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 counting. this will be the first manned flight of the saturn 5, the largest rocket man has ever built....
Remember newspapers? they were the preferred way to read news in 1969, but nasa decided to tweet the re-enactment of the moon launch to celebrate its 45th anniversary. >> we are go for "apollo 11". >> reporter: at the same time of the morning corresponding to real events, nasa sent out tweets, the astronauts are breakfasting on steak and eggs, suiting up, waving good-bye. >> all three astronauts now aboard the spacecraft. >> reporter: that's jack king nicknameded the voice of "apollo". >> t minus three minutes and counting. >> reporter: jack was 38 then. 83 now. >> the atmosphere in the contro...
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