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Cancel your holiday plans, we're going to the Moon!

With the urgency of the Space Race in full effect, Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Bill Anders, and Jim Lovell launched from @NASAKennedy #OTD in 1968.

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To the Moon and Back: Apollo 8 and the Future of Lunar Exploration

In mid-August of 1968, astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders received a call telling them to cancel their winter holiday plans — they were going to the Moon.
Karl Hille (NASA)
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in reply to NASA

GVF 🇨🇦
GVF 🇨🇦
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The most gutsy thing ever done in NASA history.

Let's put three guys on a rocket with just two test flights, and a pogo problem from the second one, and send them to the moon without a lifeboat.

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