Apollo 8 Blasts Off
View of the family of American astronaut Jim Lovell, including his wife Marilyn Lovell and children Barbara, James, Jeffrey and Susan, as they watch the blast off of a Saturn V rocket launching from Kennedy Space Center, carrying the Apollo 8 crew of NASA astronauts, Commander Frank Borman, Lunar Module pilot William Anders and Command Module pilot James Lovell on a journey in to space to orbit the Moon on 21st December 1968. The Apollo 8 crew would stay in space for six days and return to Earth on 27th December 1968. (Photo by Rolls Press/Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)
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