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Episode 42: Earth-Rise the Story of 1968's Apollo 8 (Special Edition)
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As we cover so much of the tumultuous year of 1968, we thought we would add one of its brightest moments too.
As the country struggled with Civil Rights, assassinations, civil unrest, and a war in Vietnam we also moved closer to a dream that stretched back to the beginning of life itself. As long as man has been capable of looking into the heavens we have dreamed of walking on the moon. By December of 1968, we were in reach of that dream becoming a reality at last.
During the week of Christmas the first manned mission to the Moon occurred when the Apollo 8 Saturn rocket took…
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