Apollo 8 s Earthrise - A Christmas Miracle [4K] | Earthrise: The First Lunar Voyage | Spark

On Christmas Eve 1968, one of the largest audiences in television history tuned in to an extraordinary sight: a live telecast of the Moon s surface as seen from Apollo 8, the first manned space flight to travel out to the moon. The Historic Journey captivated people around the world. Many welcomed a technological triumph in space after a year marked by assassinations, riots, and war, but the mission s success was far from assured. The Apollo 8 astronauts had just four months to prepare for the risky lunar orbit, and catastrophic failure would have brought a halt to America s goal of putting a man on the moon before the end of the decade. This definitive account of mankind s first journey away from earth s gravitational hold recounts the flight many consider to be NASA s most daring and important. Interviews with Apollo 8 astronauts, their wives, mission control staff, and journalists take viewers inside the high-stakes space race of the late 1960s, with rare footage and audio. In this expanded director s cut, the film reveals how a bold decision by NASA administrators put a struggling Apollo program back on track, and changed the way the earth was viewed forever. - Subscribe to Spark for more amazing science, tech & engineering videos: https://goo.gl/LIrlur 🚀 Find us on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SparkDocs/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spark_channel/ This documentary was produced in 2014. Content licensed from APT Worldwide to Little Dot Studios. Any queries, please contact us at: owned-enquiries@littledotstudios.com #Apollo #SpaceShuttle #Christmas