21 DEC 1968 WHAT HAPPEN IN SPACE

 On Dec. 21, 1968, NASA's Apollo 8 mission dispatched to the moon.

Apollo 8 was the second manned mission in NASA's Apollo program. It was additionally the principal mission to carry people to the moon. It took off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturn V rocket.

This was the initial occasion when a Saturn V dispatched with individuals ready. In the Apollo Command Module were space travelers Frank Borman , Jim Lovell and Bill Anders. The space travelers didn't arrive on the moon, yet they flew around and around it for an entire day. While in circle, Bill Anders snapped a photograph of Earth that he called "Earthrise," and this remaining parts quite possibly the most well known photograph at any point taken during the Apollo program. This was additionally whenever anybody first had seen planet Earth completely from space with natural eyes.