Apollo 8: The NASA Mission Reports

On December 21, 1968 the National Aeronautics & Space Administration sent three men to orbit the moon.

Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot James Lovell and Lunar Module Pilot Willam Anders were to be the first living creatures to enter deep space. It was the boldest step yet taken in the quest to fulfill President John Kennedy’s goal of landing a man on the moon by the end of the decade.

To accomplish the task the world’s biggest and most complex machine was built by …