Apollo 8 launched December 21, 1968 as part of President Kennedy’s space challenge to put a man on the moon in the sixties. Apollo 8 was the first human space flight to leave Earth’s orbit and to reach and orbit around the Moon. Astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders were the first humans to see Earth from deep space, and the photo they captured of the Earth rising above the Moon has become famous.
