{"id":1519,"date":"2026-12-21T00:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-12-21T05:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1519"},"modified":"2026-01-01T00:07:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T05:07:26","slug":"apollo-8-was-launched-in-1968","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1519","title":{"rendered":"Apollo 8 Was Launched in 1968"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_28281\" style=\"width: 222px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28281\" class=\" wp-image-28281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/earthrise-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"185\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-28281\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earthrise by Apollo 8 Astronauts<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Apollo 8 was launched in 1968<\/strong>. Apollo 8 was the first manned mission to leave earth\u2019s orbit, orbit the moon, and return to earth safely. One of the main goals was to view the dark side of the moon. Commander Frank Borman, Lunar Module Pilot William Anders, and Command Module Pilot James Lovell orbited around the moon on December 24 and returned to earth on December 27. On Christmas Eve they broadcast live from space and read the first ten verses of Genesis. The television show was the most watched program at that time. Children could learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/apollo\/apollo-8.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apollo 8<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apollo 8 was launched in 1968. Apollo 8 was the first manned mission to leave earth\u2019s orbit, orbit the moon, and return to earth safely. One of the main goals was to view the dark side of the moon. Commander Frank Borman, Lunar Module Pilot William Anders, and Command Module Pilot James Lovell orbited around <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1519' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4450,86,4609,4607,4610,84,4608],"class_list":["post-1519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4450","tag-apollo-8","tag-command-module-pilot-james-lovell","tag-commander-frank-borman","tag-dark-side-of-the-moon","tag-december-21","tag-lunar-module-pilot-william-anders","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1519"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28283,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions\/28283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}