Apollo 8's Earthrise - A Christmas Miracle [4K] | Earthrise: The First Lunar Voyage | Spark

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Published 2021-12-08
On Christmas Eve 1968, one of the largest audiences in television history tuned in to an extraordinary sight: a live telecast of the Moon's surface as seen from Apollo 8, the first manned space flight to travel out to the moon. The Historic Journey captivated people around the world. Many welcomed a technological triumph in space after a year marked by assassinations, riots, and war, but the mission's success was far from assured. The Apollo 8 astronauts had just four months to prepare for the risky lunar orbit, and catastrophic failure would have brought a halt to America's goal of putting a man on the moon before the end of the decade. This definitive account of mankind's first journey away from earth's gravitational hold recounts the flight many consider to be NASA's most daring and important. Interviews with Apollo 8 astronauts, their wives, mission control staff, and journalists take viewers inside the high-stakes space race of the late 1960s, with rare footage and audio. In this expanded director's cut, the film reveals how a bold decision by NASA administrators put a struggling Apollo program back on track, and changed the way the earth was viewed forever.
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All Comments (21)
  • I had a cassette recorder I got for Christmas that year---a basic Panasonic one, with external microphone. It was the present I opened that Christmas Eve. I recorded that Christmas message from Apollo 8, and still have it to this day. Time has taken its toll on the recording, but it's still audible, even with the hiss of the tape. My parents kept it for me, and I got it back after my mom died in 2013. It's kept in my gun safe, and very rarely played, and when it is played, it's always on Christmas Eve. (Jan Griffiths).
  • @TheCream14
    My favorite space mission of all. That message on Christmas Eve was so inspirational.
  • The best Christmas story ever! A message of peace, hope, faith and unity for all humanity.
  • @Quanvietdung1
    I am Vietnamese

    In 1968, when the Apollo 8 mission took place, my country Vietnam was at war, very few Vietnamese people knew about the Apollo 8 mission.

    Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders of Apollo 8 were the first people in human history to have seen Earth from another world.
  • @armiesep8710
    My dad worked for Boston illustrated Wire & Cable Co.they were located El Segundo Ca. His job was, braiding the cables used for all the Apollo Flights. He took great pride, knowing he had a small part, in the Apollo program, through NASA. I was 17 years old when Apollo 8 flight went into Space.
  • @jayvee3462
    WOW! This was intellectually, emotionally, spiritually, etc. moving. Thank you for posting. I was 15 years old at the time and seeing history being made at the time and seeing it at 68 now is an eye opener. So much had happened I wasn't aware of at that time!!!!!!!!
  • @negrildoc
    This was almost as significant as Armstrong taking that step. Really gutsy move by NASA and space program.I was seven yrs old at the time and thought Id grow up in a world where space travel would be abundant. I dreamed of going around the moon too. good luck to the next generation
  • I was just 8yrs old, but remember this well! It’s hard to believe I’m 62 now, and will live to see Artemis 1 (unmanned) return to the moon again soon!
  • The joy of this mission was so incredible. World wide excitement like never before over the landing on the moon. It was my 14th birthday and I watched with my mother as they landed. We screamed for joy and cried for joy! What a day it was.
  • @Roy-cu5bv
    Apollo 8 was way more ballsy than any moon landing
  • @pedrodiaz5540
    When you see the Saturn V going up and roaring, you are watching the most complex,powerful and a the same time beautiful machine ever built, a masterpiece of engineering .
  • @donaldvincent
    I was a little kid when the Apollo program was still alive. It seemed like we as Americans and we as Humans could do anything. The future held such promise. Then all we got was a lot of bad drivers due to Facebook being irresistible and text messages that cannot wait.
  • @ro4eva
    Hearing the astronauts; hearing those brave men read from Genesis was incredibly moving.
  • @PumaTwoU
    This moment in time was pivotal to my personal growth. More importantly, it was a pivotal moment for the planet in the midst of turmoil, yet during a time of social change, where young people like myself sought peace in all mankind, a respect for our planet and keeping it whole and viable. We need these reminders even now, every day, that such things are possible, that humanity is capable of creating such peace, if we simply care to make it so. Thank you for this fine documentary work. It helps renew our souls.
  • Truly
    a groundbreaking and dangerous undertaking, you have to admire the courage of those guys who stepped into the unknown
  • The most exciting of times. Blessed to be just days from my 18th birthday. With all the turmoil transpiring on the earth, this changed the focus to look at what we could accomplish. America breathed again when the Apollo 8 made that transmission after emerging from the dark side of the moon. Wonderful times experienced
  • @adub1300
    I seriously cannot wait for Artemis 2. I want to experience this the way my parents got to.
  • @override7486
    Seeing Chris Kraft talking about this things in past tense brings tears to my eyes. Unbelievable man and unbelievable mission...