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• Apollo 8: When Mankind First Shook Earth's Kindly Bounds
  Soaring faster and farther than humans had ever gone before, Borman, Lovell and Anders cut a trail to the moon for Neil Armstrong's "giant leap" seven months later

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• Apollo 8: Flying into Space History during a Moment of Public Enthusiasm
  It was a time of high excitement. But the U.S. public's support of manned space exploration was already ebbing

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• Moon Lust: Will International Competition or Cooperation Return Humans to the Moon?
  The U.S. has been there, but now that many countries have joined the club of space-faring nations, which will be the first to return?

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• The Voyage of Apollo 8: The 40th Anniversary of Mankind's First Trip to the Moon [Slide Show]
  When three U.S. astronauts became the first humans to leave Earth's gravity field, some NASA experts gave them a 50-50 chance of making it home alive

 

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