"In the beginning..."
Forty years ago tonight, Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders snapped this famous photograph of the earth rising over the horizon of the moon:
Mission commander Frank Borman read from the book of Genesis, "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth."
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Apollo 8 was the first manned spaceflight to orbit another celestial body.
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