On this day in 1968 - December 24th - Apollo 8 entered lunar orbit.
The crew were the first humans to view Earth as a whole planet, the first to orbit another world, and the first to see the far side of the Moon. They made a live Christmas Eve broadcast to the Earth as they circled the Moon.
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