Today is the 40th anniversary of NASA’s Apollo 8’s broadcast, a mission that saw humans witness Earth rise for the first time
Without a Lunar Module (LM), Apollo 8 had a Lunar Test Article that was a representative mass of the LM
40 years ago today: Apollo 8’s Christmas Eve broadcast
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