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PICTURE SHOWS: The December 21, 1968 launch of Apollo 8 (AS-503) from Cape Kennedy, Fla. was the beginning of a mission designed to test the Apollo system and gain the operational experience necessary to realize President Kennedy???s goal of ??slanding a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth.??? In this photo, Commander Colonel Frank Borman leads the way as he, Command Module Pilot Captain James A Lovell Jr., and Lunar Module Pilot Major William A. Anders head to the launch pad for humanity???s maiden voyage around the moon and its first aboard the Saturn V vehicle, developed by NASA???s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. ...... STORY COPY: The Christmas season 50 years ago saw the first humans to leave Earth orbit: their destination, 234,000 miles away, was the Moon. Dec. 21, 1968, saw the crew of NASA's Apollo 8 blast off on the first manned flight of the massive Saturn V rocket. The six-day mission would see them orbit the moon ten times, taking detailed images of the lunar surface vital for flight planners to select landing sites for upcoming missions to land on the Moon. Christmas Eve saw millions around the world watching and listening as the Apollo 8 astronauts, Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders, became the first humans to orbit another world. As their command module floated above the lunar surface, the astronauts beamed back images of the moon and Earth and took turns reading from the book of Genesis, closing with a wish for everyone "on the good Earth." The mission was also famous for the iconic "Earthrise" image, snapped by Anders, which would give humankind a new perspective on their home planet. Anders has said that despite all the training and preparation for an exploration of the moon, the astronauts ended up discovering Earth. The Apollo 8 astronauts got where they were that Christmas Eve because of a bold, improvisational call by NASA. With the clock ticking on President Kennedy's challenge to land on t
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