Earthrise - The First Voyage to the Moon | Free Documentary History

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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 leave Earth's gravitational pull and orbit the moon. The historic journey captivated people around the world.
As this documentary reveals, however, 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 film 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 to reveal how a bold decision by NASA administrators put a struggling Apollo program back on track and allowed America to reach the moon before the Soviets.
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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 leave Earth's gravitational pull and orbit the moon. The historic journey captivated people around the world.

[@doonbags22]

Wrong. Yes people tuned in to false information. Stop Lying.

[@bluesky6985]

No one went to the moon 😊.

[@SalyLuz-hc6he]

@@bluesky6985 Is that because the Earth is flat?

[@TheLittlered1961]

I remember watching this live. I followed James Lovell's history in space fight. Little did I know that his niece was in my class. I found out his niece was in my class during Apollo 13. Our whole class went down to watch the splash down on the largest color TV in the school.

[@bluesky6985]

@@TheLittlered1961 Apollo 13 was a scam

[@orionexplorer]

I was 8 years old and spent Christmas vacation following the flight. What a time it was. Yes, Apollo 8 saved 68.

[@peterbothwell9005]

I was also 8 years old. To be honest, I can’t remember watching the Apollo 8 mission, but I can vividly remember watching those that followed.

[@grommy1234]

I had the privilege of being at the Cape for this launch. I was a (very) young USAF Information Officer taking a group of VIPs from Eglin AFB to see the liftoff. My chest vibrated when the rocket roared to life. I recently came across the slides I took, and am still in awe of the technology that was evidenced that day. It did indeed save 1968!

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

awesome story and wow how cool is that?!

[@ben8405]

How true is this story? I'm not going to Believe much anymore?

[@grommy1234]

I was there. I felt it. I saw it. I heard it. Thousands of people around me saw it, heard it and felt it take off. I have photos that I took with my camera. It was real. @@ben8405

[@Vic-hl7wm]

it's was just showtime...fake ...

[@rozzgrey801]

@@Vic-hl7wm Try and prove it, then you might convince someone.

[@therealzilch]

I was 18 at the time, a top science student and an insufferable nerd. It never crossed my mind back then that anyone could doubt this happened, because it seemed obvious that we had the technology, the money, and the will to do it. I've since chatted with many Apollo deniers, and most of them are either too young to have experienced it live, or have so little understanding of physics and technology that their opinions are worthless.

[@franknorthcuttmusic]

I was a teenager during Apollo, and a science nerd as well. Became an engineer, recently retired. It's sad that with so much information at your fingertips today that people are seduced by KZbin conspiracies, accepting them at face value without any verification. And you are right, listening to many of their comments makes it obvious that they do not understand science and technology, nor do they know anything about the Apollo program. Yet they speak if it with great confidence. They are a small minority, but I fear their numbers may be growing, as we get farther away from the events.

[@levin448]

I remember the flight like it was yesterday. What shocked me was how audacious it was. NASA was driven by an engineering culture which demands incremental steps towards reaching a goal. Apollo 8 went to the moon after the first Apollo flight which was a test drive of Saturn V and the systems in the command module. ( This, after almost two years of reengineering the command module after the Apollo 6 fire.) The "Space Race" was still real which motivated the decision to try for the moon. How high were the risks? Lovell's wife asked Gene Krantz head of mission control. He told her that it was a fifty percent chance that the astronauts would make it back alive. Apollo 13 verified how dangerous this new technology was.

[@raylittle8607]

The Mercury, Gemini and Apollo astronauts were real heroes. Very brave men, particularly those that went to the moon. If anything went wrong on the surface, that was it!

[@Accumulator1]

It had to been a mental sacrifice, days of time to work on the mind , the challange to ignore the tremendous anxiety wondering if you are at the point of no return.

[@raylittle8607]

@@Accumulator1 I also believe that Slayton and Shepherd had a real grip on the astronauts. If they didn’t like you that was you finished. I know that Slayton disliked Aldrin and he tried his best to get him off 11. He wanted Lovell to be the LMP. Armstrong dug his heels in and insisted on Aldrin. Armstrong stated that Lovell was too experience to be his LMP. Because Slayton got on with Cernan, he was willing to forgive Cernan crashing a helicopter. McDivitt said according to the flight rules astronauts are stood down if this occurs. This didn’t happen and McDivitt resigned from his position. It was the same with Cooper. He was back up for 10 and all of a sudden when Shepherd was declared fit for flight, Cooper was dropped. Cooper was a far more experienced astronaut than Shepherd. A bit of gingery pockery going on.

[@yates6608]

RIP to all the astronauts that have paid with their lives 🙏

[@tonynoaa3950]

Three were murdered. 🚀☠☠☠

[@tiberiustchaikovsky6369]

Being 5 years old when Apollo happened, I’ve seen the telling of Apollo a gazillion time; but, I have never experienced the telling of the story like this, purely from the human side (with very little technical jargon to confuse the viewer). Great job.

[@jamesb6857]

You’re confused, alright. This is fake stuff, brother.

[@MrLesonfireforGod]

I love that near final line "Thanks, you made 1968". And I remember Japanese reporters who'd never heard the Genesis story ask about where to get a copy. They were told in the Bible in each of their hotel rooms.

[@steveperyer4850]

I remember it well as a young man, stayed glued to all the updates, and it was around Christmas😊

[@user-tx4fx8kr9f]

I listen fo radio abaut Apollo-11 on loon in 1969 wen a will in Mikolajv Ukrayn. This vil bi fantastik.

[@billybynorth7467]

Must be true then if you can remember it was around Christmas.

[@duncanmckenzie2815]

Superb documentary which brought back wonderful memories of when I was a young teenager and watched theses events as they happened. Nothing can compare with those magic days of the Apollo Space Program. Thank you.

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@barium0u812]

As a 8 year old I watched the launch and Christmas Eve message on my 12 b/w Tv.

[@lukmaes6290]

Me too, in Belgium

[@lanceg133]

I remember that Christmas Eve, exactly where I was, and the exultation I experienced as an eleven year old boy sitting on the floor in my uncle's living room. And when they read from Genesis it deeply moved my heart. And I can still hear, like it just happened, their sign off: "Good night, good luck, merry Christmas, and God bless all of you, all of you on the good earth."

[@jackhanna4447]

Great Doc. I grew up with this program. Any Boomer who came of age during this time went forward throughout their career with this spirit of excellence in mind.We are are pretty much done now... ...I wish current younger generations are able to find an inspiration for their lives that is similar to what we had.

[@gives_bad_advice]

Gen X here and ib take quite a lot of inspiration from the early space program, especially Apollo 8 and 13 and the great Commander Lovell. Who's still alive by the way.

[@LSSoloSG2]

Great documentary of an extraordinary historical achievement. As young as I was this made me so proud to be an American.

[@michaelhilborn4204]

As a Canadian, the reason this mission still resonates with me to this day is not only was it an American achievement but you brought the rest of us along with you. In my opinion it had an even greater impact on our civilization than Apollo 11. And that Christmas Eve telecast was one for the ages.

[@musicbruv]

I was thinking the same thing. the crew of Apollo 8 were the first to get to the Moon. Apollo 11 only went one step further than Apollo 8 and landed on the Moon. Apollo 8 crew were pioneers.

[@DigbyOdel-et3xx]

Agreed. It was almost spiritual the Apollo 8 mission was.

[@usafvet100]

Still tear up a little when I see the vid of them doing the Genesis broadcast.

[@Scottocaster6668]

Mankind achievement!

[@usafvet100]

@@Scottocaster6668 A plaque on the descent stage of the Eagle reads, "Here men from the planet Earth first set foot on the moon, July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind "

[@raylittle8607]

Frank Boreman was in charge of the Apollo 1 fire and how to improve safety.

[@iainpaton1865]

Thank you for the very interesting video please keep the great videos coming from Scotland 😊

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

greetings to Scotland and we will!

[@chrislong3938]

When this happened, I was 10 years old and a believer in the bible, etc. because that's how I was taught. Nowadays, I'm not even close to being a religious man but the reading of the creation story is still over-the-top poignant for me!

[@Midlander1956]

To those who disbelieve, I would simply say, that’s your right to think so. But, for the remainder of us, we can enjoy knowing what we believe to be so. I don’t believe in God, but I’m happy to let those who do to carry on doing so. See? I don’t need to make comments to them, I happily exist side by side with them. Try it yourselves, you will feel less angry and frustrated. ‘Cause you know what? We just don’t care what you say 😊

[@skychaser5591]

Apollo 8 is NASA's boldest mission till this day!

[@BSNFabricating]

My question -- Why can't we do great things like this again? The Apollo program may not have solved all the problems in the world, but it brought people together, if only for a short time. We could use something inspirational like that now.

[@billhuber2964]

I was in the school when this happened. God bless America 🇺🇸

[@Fuff63]

Great doc. Uplifting. Thx. So proud of everyone involved and so honored to be alive during this window of time in the Earth’s history. -Shows what we can accomplish when we focus and pull together. Cheers.

[@adamellison5897]

I remember this mission so well. Fabulous documentary.

[@ben8405]

No np no! No!

[@rozzgrey801]

@@ben8405 Triggered much?

[@brianp7022]

The Apollo 11 crew are my hero’s…but honestly if talking guts…the of Apollo 8 took a massive risk…they really were going into uncharted territory which paved the way for the moon landings .❤

[@fumanpoo4725]

I'm glad they got home safe.

[@user-kv1dn3nf2n]

В священном восторге потомки глядят, Умильно сверкая слезами, На шутку Малевича - «Черный квадрат», Подвесив его вверх ногами. К.Ефетов

[@eXRay107]

I am still mesmerized how inspiring Kennedy's words obviously were, resulting in the USA actually achieve the goal before the decade was over. Goes to show he was loved and admired by everybody. And he deserved to be. In my opinion he was the best human being ever to have been president, with Obama a very close second. I write this from the hart, not motivated by any political point of view. I'm not even American. I am from Europe. Ok, the will to beat the Russians definitely was a very strong motivation, but still... I was six years old when on vacation in Italy, together with my father I watched on a portable black and white tv how Armstrong made his first steps on the moon. Something I will never forget as long as I will live.

[@eq1373]

I think you lost a lot of people at Obama.

[@eXRay107]

@@eq1373 Are you in this for popularity reasons? I am not, so your comment is pointless. After the Trump disaster every other former president has gone up significantly on the popularity scale. Besides, if Obama is so unpopular according to you, how come he was elected and than re-elected? And how come most of the KZbin videos on Obama to this day go viral? Moreover, assuming to be speaking for other people is a sign of narcissism. I don't understand your urge to politicize matters. I was clearly reffering to the human beings, not the politicians. Are you MAGA? If you are going to respond please do not litter the comment area with conspiracy theories. I am resting my case no matter what, so you might want to save yourself the bother and potential (further) embarrassment.

[@DAWOL2025-fs1ve]

Jim Lovell, way to go! Waiting for Artimis to walk on the moon in the 2026 Space Odyssey!

[@tiffanystidham5329]

I love how the astronauts read from the book of Genesis in the Bible when they spoke to the world. My respect for them went wayyy past that same moon after that. 🖤🌙

[@chrislong3938]

17:00 - I'll never forget that Time Magazine cover!!! I kept our copy of it for years but eventually, I lost it. Most people forget that we (the U.S.) did all of our spaceflights in full view of the world which compounds the embarrassment of any failures, whereas the Soviets hid everything from the public until they had a success! Theoretically, they could have sent thirty men on Moon missions with all of them dying before finally having success and shouting, "Look at how great we are!!" when in fact, they were nothing of the kind. Gagarin didn't fly his spacecraft, it was controlled 100% from the ground, so technically, he did little more than Laika! Still, you gotta give the guy credit! Flying on Soviet spaceflights was the epitome of bravery! I'm amazed that the spacecraft took off considering the size of his balls! He was a true pro and probably could have piloted his craft if necessary, I don't really know how much leeway he was given if things went sideways on him. . Alan Shepherd and John Glenn both controlled their crafts and it took amazing piloting skills for their missions to be successful! One of the reasons, I think, that Apollo 11 was successful, was because we had pilots who could take control and complete missions when a computer was incapable of pulling it off on its own.

[@johnvasilopoulos1503]

yes, it would be nice to get to the moon one day.

[@zijadinsinani]

kaloni mire pushoni qet. vikend. ju pershendes

[@robnordal1906]

Very good documentary, thank you for posting it

[@antoniopalmero4063]

At Paul’s cathedral couldn’t be easily replicated today either .

[@wright661]

Rembering the contribution of Katherine Johnson [NASA mathematician]

[@patrickohara1653]

Thank you - The memories of this event and the moon landing were indelibly etched on my mind as an 11 year old boy from South Africa following it all on radio (no TV). I will never forget the emotions it brought forth. Feels like yesterday to me.

[@Vic-hl7wm]

fake

[@rozzgrey801]

@@Vic-hl7wm Nope.

[@marcosalves9294]

Amazing Journey 👏👏🙏🙏

[@benapodacs7363]

Yes this was truly a great mission!! This was yester year and to day

[@cruztraveler]

Very moving documentary. Brought me to tears.

[@miahsaint-georges]

Excellent cinematography for the time

[@danielcharles4451]

It’s all fiction …. Don’t be sad

[@Bailey-zn2je]

come on grow tf up not even small girls cry to this 🤣

[@homebuiltcamperdave5226]

It was an amazing time for the USA. What’s sad is we have thousands of times the computing power and propulsion tech today that we had back then. Why haven’t we gone back? The country has lost the drive and pride and cohesiveness to pull it off! Now Congress can’t even make a decision. Opposing sides can’t be in a room together. Everyone in the media seems to have decided their job is to breed hate. I’m not sure we will ever have the capability as a country to pull something like this off again. I’m so glad I’ve lived when I am and remember these wonderful times for the country.

[@riverraisin1]

Well said. The country was at odds back then, but not to the magnitude it is today.

[@dantyler6907]

Elon just launched ANOTHER rocket to the moon... The US may not have "it" anymore, but SpaceX sure does!!!

[@katrinabentley9035]

I was going to say the same thing. Wonder why we haven't gone back? Not sure if it will happen again?

[@user-tx4fx8kr9f]

Фантастіка. Всєго через 25 років після полєта першой ракети фон Брауна, Человєк прілєтєл на луну!!!!

[@nj_creates]

All of this was just wonderful and awe-inspiring. Crazy how back then humans had their eyes on the universe and space, and now on their screens and smartphones. @35:00 those were powerful words.

[@pena.3302]

nice ,i miss the wisdom of george and pete,a la blacks rd.❤from jase

[@howardloewen1834]

I was living in Honolulu and was watching on my small black and white TV when I heard those tremendous words, those true words from Genesis chapter 1

[@davehoward22]

Poor old jim lovell, travelled to the moon more then any other man and never stood on it.

[@michealnyers184]

Well he wouldn't be famous if he did walk on the moon but true I'd rather walk on the moon

[@davehoward22]

@@michealnyers184 Probably wouldnt have been played by tom hanks in a film,thats true

[@markoconnell804]

What an amazing generation - always keep God first. Always acknowledge Him in everything you do. The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost - three in one God.

[@miahsaint-georges]

I liked it when they drove that dune buggy and played golf on the moon!

[@AA-ke5cu]

They can't supply you a picture of what they left on the moon.😮 try to find one.

[@rozzgrey801]

@@AA-ke5cu I found hundreds of photos of the Apollo sites taken by Japanese probe and the Lunar Recon probe. I guess you can't find what you don't want to see. You keep lying and denying and we'll keep proving you wrong. :)

[@rozzgrey801]

@@AA-ke5cu I found loads. You're not looking.

[@amarshmuseconcepta6197]

​@@rozzgrey801 FFS..😆"any sign of🎥Kubrick's🐐 It was all a big🏁🤺 *con* 😳

[@rozzgrey801]

@@amarshmuseconcepta6197 Are you trying to say something?

[@tedpeterson1156]

1:27 Flight operations director says 50/50 chance of safe return? I don’t believe this could be a complete quotation, while the risk was very high, I don’t believe they would have received the go ahead were the odds that bad. A failure would have jeopardized the entire program.

[@dandronemoan4041]

His wife quotes it word for word later on

[@dandronemoan4041]

40:06 here you go

[@ksracing8396]

What was never really clear is if Kraft meant 50:50 about mission success or 50:50 about survival. The latter is what Susan Borman understood, but Kraft in some interviews was more ambiguos, more leaning to the mission success version...

[@wildboar7473]

....dah the Decade was running out, as the funding spree... NASA mission Director had said least 30 would die trying for that giant Leap. "Threlfall’s was the first official wager in the Space Race, and the odds were not in his favor: Famous bookmakers William Hill allowed him odds of 1,000 to 1 “for any man, woman or child, from any nation on Earth, being on the Moon, or any other planet, star or heavenly body of comparable distance from Earth, before January, 1971.” What lunar bettors didn’t know was that NASA also gave the moon landing long odds. Only months before Threlfall’s wager, a NASA-commissioned risk assessment had forecast the chance of successfully fulfilling Kennedy’s decreed moon landing at just 1 in 20." Even positive Crew after "successful Journeys" >>> ”Armstrong told interviewers on the flight’s 30th anniversary, “but only a 50-50 chance of making a landing on that first attempt.” Buzz Aldrin had it about there too. “I think we will escape with our skins,” Michael Collins wrote in a NASA history, “but I wouldn’t give better than even odds on a successful landing and return. There are just too many things that can go wrong.”

[@MarkS-yv8cn]

We saw it on TV so it must be real.

[@statzuno]

The fact that we did all that with that level of technology is amazing.

[@tonynoaa3950]

They didn't its impossible

[@Bailey-zn2je]

@@tonynoaa3950 ya they have never been up there its all a lie

[@tonynoaa3950]

@@Bailey-zn2je people believe anything if they don't know the facts.

[@robbymeadows3149]

Kidneys man. Kidneys

[@GH-oi2jf]

The crucial technologies, rocketry, radio, and computers, had been invented decades earlier.

[@765kvline]

Apollo 8 was the only rewarding event of an otherwise disastrously eventful year. He was right--"Apollo 8 did SAVE 1968."

[@denome3725]

We are unable even up to this day to safely do more than 10% of the trip and we want to believe that more than fifty years ago we were able to go to the Moon and came back safely. The irony is that the Artificial Intelligence itself will be the first to set "foot" so to speak on the Moon sometimes in the far future and after that it will take even more until humans will finally be able to reach that place after learning so much from "yours truly".

[@therealzilch]

NASA's budget today is about 10% what it was in 1969.

[@denome3725]

@@therealzilch The whole humanity with all the budget in the world will not make any difference but it is fine to believe. After all, we pray to a God that we never met.

[@therealzilch]

@@denome3725 So how do you explain the 840 lbs of lunar rocks they brought back? And it's fine to believe in God, but I don't.

[@denome3725]

@@therealzilch Let me ask you this: How can someone prove that the rocks are indeed lunar? Who can? Only those that brought them back? This is such a laugh.

[@troyevitt2437]

30:06 Oh, silly little lady...THAT'S when the MOON'S out! Now let's get those snacks out there!

[@buffplums]

Always thing of Filoe Beddoe when I hear the role “FDO” … or Fido the dog… 🐶

[@SeanNewhouse-mv9ez]

It was just a slingshot trip in advance of an actual landing for testing

[@user-wc7ox7wz1n]

No, it was not a slingshot mission, went into orbit for a lot of orbits.

[@andrese.castillo8869]

Amazin'. Sadly today NASA and corporations, landed a robot on the moon, more than 50 years from this epic journey...

[@JonnoPlays]

Nothing sad about that though.

[@andrese.castillo8869]

well If you say so...@@JonnoPlays

[@eq1373]

​@andrese.castillo8869 what's sad about it?

[@andrese.castillo8869]

@@eq1373 connect the dots my friend

[@user-fh6ly1pz7i]

Wow this really bluw my mind

[@MSmith-vv6fk]

Blew#

[@ctmdrivetest789]

you mind is so fragile

[@whirledpeas3477]

Thanks for not having Gene Kranz explaining what a great man he is.

[@ksracing8396]

Kranz did not work Apollo 8, it was Cliff Charlesworth as Lead Flight, Glynn Lunney, who did the big moment of LOI, and the new guys Gerry Griffin and Milt Windler. So for once Lunney gets the credit he deserves. On console, he was the best anyway as lots of the controllers of the time confirm. He was just mich more humble and never sought the limelight... It was him who did the most important shift on Apollo 13, but as the movie completely focused on Kranz, very few people know, especially as Glynn never bragged about it in public.

[@petertuckergoettler5720]

"Good Stuff," merci.

[@ohioken1]

Those were my heroes… only to be topped by Apollo 11

[@Robbo1966]

The most epic space mission ever

[@danielson101]

i was born in 57 i watched it

[@billybynorth7467]

1:35 picture of a family from the fifties, says it all

[@nealrose7582]

I remember project Apollo....

[@ohheyitskevinc]

14:05 historical revisionism added by the same person on every single space film. No, the lunar module (or lander as he calls it) was never intended to be a “lifeboat” at that time. It only became a “lifeboat” by chance on Apollo 13, and was never considered a lifeboat by NASA after 13 either. The lunar module’s engine was also useless to “get home”. It was used in Apollo 13 to speed up the return home, used in conjunction with the third stage or command module engine. Its descent stage engine didn’t have the fuel to “get home”. It’s OMS could be used to help course correct, but that’s about it. If the third stage engine died on the way to or from the moon - so did the crew, unless they’re far enough along (they were always subject to earth’s gravity even at the moon and would always fall back to earth - the concern is how long it takes to get back) to where they’d still be alive on splashdown. Source on the lifeboat nonsense: owning plenty of NASA SP series books written and published prior to Apollo 8. 29:58 - no, if the engine malfunctioned, they wouldn’t hurtle into space. At TLI 2 days earlier, they were always on a free return trajectory. They’d have simply circled the moon using its gravity and come back to earth. The hurtle into space piece would only happen if they a) burned at the wrong time and b) had enough fuel to get to both lunar and Earth escape velocity. They didn’t have enough fuel for b to happen. Free return trajectory btw is what Apollo 13 used. Am not making this sound easy - none of this was, but there’s a lot of inaccuracies in this documentary that make the engineers and scientists who planned for this seem almost callous.

[@GH-oi2jf]

We actually landed on the Moon with a year to spare. The last year of the decade was 1970.

[@yoskarokuto3553]

NASA SP287 " WHAT MADE APOLLO A SUCCESS ? " " of course , the way we got this job done was with meeting , big meetings , little meeting hundreds of meetings ! ( " the thing we always tried to do in these meetings was to encourage every one no matter how shy to speak out !!! " ) WHY encourage every one NO MATTER HOW SHY TO SPEAK SOMETHING OUT !!! IS ULTIMATE SECRET TO " MADE APOLLO A SUCCESS ? " you CAN GO TO THE MOON WITH " DON'T SHY TO SPEAK SOMETHING OUT ? "

[@romeoreponte9588]

👍👍👍

[@David-su2vv]

Glynn Lunney born and raised in Old Forge Pa.

[@gives_bad_advice]

Really? Go Penna.!

[@jacksonhudson7711]

What did the first Apollo 1-7 do?

[@Eskimo8888]

Apollo 1 caught on fire and killed the Astronauts. Apollo 2 - 6 were test flights. I can’t remember Apollo 7

[@ksracing8396]

​@@Eskimo8888Actually, 2 and 3 never happened when everything was turned upside down after the fire, 4 and 6 were test flights for the SaturnV, 5 a test of the LM, flown with the Saturn IB. Apollo 7 was the first crewed flight, testing out the new, modified Block 2 Command Module in LEO, launched on the Saturn IB as well. Crew was Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walt Cunningham. It was a very important flight for the program, "Return to Flight" after the fire, and the basis for making the final decision to really go "all in" for Apollo 8. But as it was "only" a LEO flight, it is often overlooked nowadays or only remembered for the problems between mainly Schirra and Mission Control.

[@GH-oi2jf]

Collins' book covers the Gemini and Apollo history.

[@noanyobiseniss7462]

They did this on orders of magnitudes less computing power than we have in watches today.

[@tedpeterson1156]

No, they had some pretty powerful programming brought to bear, the problem was the computers took up whole floors of dedicated computer rooms, so they had to stay on the ground. The data was then uploaded to the spacecraft. During the Apollo 13 crisis they basically confiscated all the university mainframes around the country to crunch their numbers.

[@therealzilch]

Also, calculating orbital mechanics is not all that processor hungry. Any modern computer game requires thousands of times the power.

[@bernardruiz696]

Mais quand je lis les commentaires sur cette mission d'apolo 8 , j'ai eu du mal à comprendre que le niveau intellectuel des Américains était pas plus que 10 ans, la naïveté de ces citoyens ont commencé à douter de la vérité de l'assassinat de JFK et surtout du 11/09/2001..…

[@noanyobiseniss7462]

W0w, I forgot all about the bible verses being spoken during this. Imagine an alien race listening in on that and thinking what kind of crazy species this must be.

[@imagereader_9]

Yes, it is easy to see how a God-less species, one that fancies itself so smart they created themselves using only their own time and materials, would find folly in something that sows doubt that they actually did....

[@tedpeterson1156]

I bet you’re really fun at parties

[@whirledpeas3477]

Truth may not make everyone happy, but the truth is the truth. Thanks for your comment.

[@wildboar7473]

Imagine Aliens being Theist, way to go to create Life out of chemicals soup.

[@user-md2bt8tt1n]

Awesome picture of Earth from the Moon.

[@tonynoaa3950]

There are no pictures of the earth from the moon.

[@user-md2bt8tt1n]

@@tonynoaa3950 The 1 in the film picture. I saw it in 1987. You telling me it not real?

[@tonynoaa3950]

@@user-md2bt8tt1n yes it isn't real.

[@Hobbes746]

@@tonynoaa3950 No, Earthrise is real, just like all of the other photos taken by the Apollo missions.

[@tonynoaa3950]

@@Hobbes746 😂😂😂😂

[@afvet5075]

It took big balls.

[@DigbyOdel-et3xx]

I have a copy of the National Geographic which wrote up the story of Apollo 8. The headline on the magazine's cover wrote, "A most fantastic voyage." I always thought that to be such an appropriate cover headline.😎

[@wildboar7473]

Most in-credible if Space specs are real.

[@JonnoPlays]

The comments on this video made me lose brain cells. Flat earthers out in force these days.

[@Jayjay-qe6um]

Apollo 8 came at the end of 1968, a year had seen much upheaval in the United States and most of the world. Even though the year saw political assassinations, political unrest in the streets of Europe and America, and the Prague Spring, Time magazine chose the crew of Apollo 8 as its Men of the Year for 1968, recognizing them as the people who most influence events in the preceding year.

[@user-xy7pn9bb8m]

He's working that gum

[@riverraisin1]

One more reason why I'm proud to have been born in a time to witness great events like this first hand and to be able to relive it using today's technology.

[@JamesCJ833]

Question everything…we went to the moon in the 60s…right

[@jonathonshell]

We will do it again it's inevitable

[@user-vm2ix8pj8j]

The Age of Space for All Mankind - Began according to Moscow Time. according to the Time of the Country with the Capital in Moscow. Gagarin - The First Earthman who Made a Manned Flight into Space. Titov - The First Earthling who Made a Manned Daily Flight into Space. Leonov - The First Earthling who Made the Entrance into the Open Space. The First artificial satellite of the Planet Earth 🌏 - Russian Sputnik 1. The First stable Signal from Space (which Mankind managed to receive) was Sent to Planet Earth - Russian Sputnik 1. Russians are Pioneers in the Sphere of Space.

[@Hal09i]

The myth that Frank Borman had the "24 hour flu" still persists. In reality he was space sick. He was feeling queasy and then took a Seconal sleeping tablet, which then wreaked havoc on his already upset digestive system.

[@PAULLONDEN]

When the world still had no doubts about the good intentions of the U.S.....countless imperialist wars later sadly have changed that perception.

[@robchesley4591]

Boy has that ever changed.. an for good reason

[@gives_bad_advice]

The U.S. invaded Mexico and took Texas long before.

[@davidstepeck2644]

That was awesome!

[@jacquesjacques-yh8hh]

56 years later Artemis will do the same thing....may be !

[@MrRolotube]

One of the best documentaries I've ever watched.

[@Bailey-zn2je]

🤣

[@starguy2718]

JFK put a man on the Moon. FJB put a man in the girl's bathroom.

[@mansonabc0001]

Buzz Aldrin would slap this entire comment section for the lack of brain cells. Present technology has changed (yes, partly thank the space race for that), those of Apollo are long retired or have passed. Like 2/3 of tech and work for achieving such a goal needs to be totally redone. The massive computer power we have now doesn't solve necessarily more than they were able to do back then with specific calculation programs relying more on manual input using potato power. It's not about how much, but what you do with it. They had it figured out, if you can't comprehend that's on you.

[@Maxtyur]

I flew with Buzz in 67 he would be fine with this comment section my girl

[@mansonabc0001]

@@Maxtyur There were no comment sections in '67, only message boards. If you really flew with Buzz back in the good 'ol days, you'd know.

[@Maxtyur]

@@mansonabc0001 how dare you good sir I was saying Tik Tok ,Facebook, instagram, however messages can be reprinted and deleted by the user.

[@mansonabc0001]

@@Maxtyur No, 'this comment section' clearly only refers to KZbin. The last time there was this much BS i was flying Apollo 13 with Jim Lovell.

[@Maxtyur]

@@mansonabc0001 I flew with Jim in 66 we where airborne over Hanoi when we'll things got crazy we were taken flack from the commies on the mainland.

[@samstvshow]

It's just a blue ball floating in space. Jeeez. Where's the stack of turtles?? We need something.

[@johanvangelderen6715]

Where is that Firmament which the Buy-Bull Bangers preach about

[@timoteiafanasie4894]

❤❤❤ it looks so real! I love it!

[@mountainserenity9347]

The country that accomplished this is long gone

[@statzuno]

Unified, to a certain degree.

[@statzuno]

Then there's the Administration that killed it.

[@Accumulator1]

It remains a historic accomplishment that USA was first to put a human on the lunar surface.

[@stanzanossi]

Really? With Elon Musk planning to send people to Mars? Which is 1000 times harder than going to the moon! Sounds like America is not gone at all!

[@bagoistvan3182]

1:36 ...🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@brianstyrczula9466]

Tell me about it, I reel lee want too no.

[@Stolencamaro]

22,44 bird flying around the “space. 😂

[@user-xw8er4uj9j]

So where are the photos of the stars taken from the command module on the dark side of the moon? Or did we forget the camera...

[@Jan_Strzelecki]

He didn't take any, as far as I know. Your point being?

[@therealzilch]

What would have been the point? The command module was orbiting the Moon at a pretty good clip, and stars are dim, requiring fast film and/or long exposures: they would have been blurry and of little to no scientific interest.

[@maxfan1591]

Their photography objective was to take photographs of the Moon. They were already incredibly busy with that and other mission-critical tasks. Photographs of the stars from lunar orbit would be identical to photographs of the stars taken on Earth, so why bother?

[@GH-oi2jf]

You don't know anything about camera exposures.

[@heplegf]

go play somewhere else..

[@lesdavy981]

Photo shop was not invented then your phones tech is much more powerful now, !