50 years ago, three NASA astronauts made history when they embarked on a mission that would take them “Round the moon and back”.

The Apollo 8 mission proved the performance of the command and service module - a vital component of the Apollo manned moon missions.

This historic mission launched on December 21, 1968 to demonstrate a lunar trajectory and was the first crewed launch of the Saturn V rocket. On Christmas Eve, Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders were the first humans to orbit the Moon and the first to see an Earthrise above its surface.

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