An Evening With Apollo 8
In December 1968, Apollo 8 crew members Frank Borman, Jim Lovell,
and Bill Anders became the first human beings to travel beyond
low Earth orbit. On Christmas Eve, as they read from the Book of
Genesis, the entire world was awestruck by the sight of our planet
floating in the lifeless void of space. In May 2016, nearly 50 y ears
after their historic flight, the Heritage Flight Museum held a gala
where the Apollo 8 crew reminisced
about their mission. It was all topped
off by the crew taking off on a speci