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 leave Earth's gravitational pull and orbit the moon. The historic journey captivated people around the world.
I remember watching this live. I followed James Lovell's history in space fight. Little did I know that his niece was in my class. I found out his niece was in my class during Apollo 13. Our whole class went down to watch the splash down on the largest color TV in the school.
Major General William Anders just crashed his plane today in the San Juan Islands. On Apollo 8 he gave us THE picture of the 🌎 that Some say brought the awareness of our planets preciousness, and the beginning of the environmental movement. Rest in Peace Sir and thank you!
Yes I remember this so well - I was 13 and it was Christmas day here in Australia as far as I remember - we all held our breath as Apollo 8 disappeared behind the moon. What a time for a teenage boy to be alive!
I was 18 at the time, a top science student and an insufferable nerd. It never crossed my mind back then that anyone could doubt this happened, because it seemed obvious that we had the technology, the money, and the will to do it. I've since chatted with many Apollo deniers, and most of them are either too young to have experienced it live, or have so little understanding of physics and technology that their opinions are worthless.
I was a teenager during Apollo, and a science nerd as well. Became an engineer, recently retired. It's sad that with so much information at your fingertips today that people are seduced by TH-cam conspiracies, accepting them at face value without any verification. And you are right, listening to many of their comments makes it obvious that they do not understand science and technology, nor do they know anything about the Apollo program. Yet they speak if it with great confidence. They are a small minority, but I fear their numbers may be growing, as we get farther away from the events.
@@SPDATA1 So I guess you fit in the second category. How did they fake the Moon rocks? Or being tracked to the Moon and back? Those are unfakeable even today.
@@SPDATA1 "I saw it on telly IRL...", and that's the extent of your knowledge on the subject, so in your mind it never happened. Maybe you shouldn't comment on things you know nothing about.
Funny, studying physics and engineering in college is what helped me get over the cognitive dissonance and realize this is all a huge lie! In what field is your degree?
I remenber it well. My oarents had just replaced our old black and white TV, with a brand new RCA Color Console. We had the family over for Christmas, with a dozen grandkids running about. We kids spent our Christmas watching Color, Cartoons and Cronkite. Since liftoff a few days earlier, my parents, my 4yr old sister and i had been glued to the broadcasts whenever they were on.
I was 8yrs old as well! I was obsessed with our Space Program since The Liberty & Aurora mission of Gemini Spacecraft! Even today, at the age of 63, I’m still in love with space exploration
Apollo 8 in some respects is a greater feat than Apollo 11. It was a "go for broke" mission to put the Apollo program back on schedule after the tragedy of Apollo 1 that killed three astronauts, a launchpad test that reveled the fatal flaws of the command module. Without the success of this flight, there would have been no Apollo 11, no Neil Armstrong proclaiming "That's one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind". I was a college student, turning 21 on December 25th. Looking back, this magnificent achievemen was the best birthday present I ever received.
I had the privilege of being at the Cape for this launch. I was a (very) young USAF Information Officer taking a group of VIPs from Eglin AFB to see the liftoff. My chest vibrated when the rocket roared to life. I recently came across the slides I took, and am still in awe of the technology that was evidenced that day. It did indeed save 1968!
I was there. I felt it. I saw it. I heard it. Thousands of people around me saw it, heard it and felt it take off. I have photos that I took with my camera. It was real. @@ben8405
Superb documentary which brought back wonderful memories of when I was a young teenager and watched theses events as they happened. Nothing can compare with those magic days of the Apollo Space Program. Thank you.
I KNOW that Father Jeoa exists. I was 10 when Neil Armstrong landed on the moon. I KNOW that Armstrong DID land on the moon. How do I KNOW? ALL THE PHYSICAL LAWS that were put into operation by the RIGHT REVEREND FATHER JEOA..........put those Laws of Physics into operation
I remember that Christmas Eve, exactly where I was, and the exultation I experienced as an eleven year old boy sitting on the floor in my uncle's living room. And when they read from Genesis it deeply moved my heart. And I can still hear, like it just happened, their sign off: "Good night, good luck, merry Christmas, and God bless all of you, all of you on the good earth."
Great Doc. I grew up with this program. Any Boomer who came of age during this time went forward throughout their career with this spirit of excellence in mind.We are are pretty much done now... ...I wish current younger generations are able to find an inspiration for their lives that is similar to what we had.
Gen X here and ib take quite a lot of inspiration from the early space program, especially Apollo 8 and 13 and the great Commander Lovell. Who's still alive by the way.
I love that near final line "Thanks, you made 1968". And I remember Japanese reporters who'd never heard the Genesis story ask about where to get a copy. They were told in the Bible in each of their hotel rooms.
Amazing documentary, True heroes, In school we used to watch All of the Take off in school. But apollo eight took off during christmas break, Brought back a lot of memories. The crew reading the bible as they orbit at the moon, Truly amazing. Brought tears to my eyes. And the photograph of the Earth. It's truly amazing, When you look at the earth from space, You truly see how fragile it is and all alone. One day I believe there will be total peace on earth, I could go on, But remember the words, In the beginning
@@David-cv1se just showing my respect to all the astronauts that have lost their lives all the fatal accidents that have occurred in the past, nothing wrong with that is there 🤷♂️
What an incredible decade. The 60's were a time beyond anything that anyone could ever have imagined. I'm privileged to have experienced that period in history that will never be forgotten.
I was 7 years old and continue to be a solid fan of the Apollo program. Have a Saturn 5 rocket model in my home office. It was a special time in history.
Myself, I had 6 days in utero to go on Christmas Eve of '68, and am so grateful for this miraculous sliver in time. A sort of cosmic buffer between all the societal breakdown and tragedy that year and my arrival. Seeing the beautiful blue earth, home, from our lunar companions orbit for the first time... the courage despite a 50/50 risk ratio... the pioneering aspect(s) making possible the landing missions to follow... the profoundly moving crew messages... and for saving 196f'ing8! 🚀💜
My question -- Why can't we do great things like this again? The Apollo program may not have solved all the problems in the world, but it brought people together, if only for a short time. We could use something inspirational like that now.
"Again!" 😅 We can't do these things because the earth is a flat, infinite plane with our "world" bound by the ice wall beyond our local sun's influence, the "firmament" of heaven above us separating the "waters" above that from us, and God knows what beneath us, and other "worlds" with their own local suns, at various points on the flat infinite frozen plane. Maybe! Why not? No less proof of that than the NASA B.S.!
When this happened, I was 10 years old and a believer in the bible, etc. because that's how I was taught. Nowadays, I'm not even close to being a religious man but the reading of the creation story is still over-the-top poignant for me!
Hey you Free Documentary people- I just watched this again, and I have to say that you did a great job of documenting a legendary accomplishment. Thanks from rainy Vienna, Scott
As do I - was 8 years old. Interviews in this documentary that I've never seen before - Leonov, the astronauts and the astronauts wives. Always learn something new with every documentary I see and never tire of seeing new ones.
Great doc. Uplifting. Thx. So proud of everyone involved and so honored to be alive during this window of time in the Earth’s history. -Shows what we can accomplish when we focus and pull together. Cheers.
As a Canadian, the reason this mission still resonates with me to this day is not only was it an American achievement but you brought the rest of us along with you. In my opinion it had an even greater impact on our civilization than Apollo 11. And that Christmas Eve telecast was one for the ages.
I was thinking the same thing. the crew of Apollo 8 were the first to get to the Moon. Apollo 11 only went one step further than Apollo 8 and landed on the Moon. Apollo 8 crew were pioneers.
@@Scottocaster6668 A plaque on the descent stage of the Eagle reads, "Here men from the planet Earth first set foot on the moon, July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind "
Thank you - The memories of this event and the moon landing were indelibly etched on my mind as an 11 year old boy from South Africa following it all on radio (no TV). I will never forget the emotions it brought forth. Feels like yesterday to me.
I was 17 and a Junior in High School and watched all this live as it happened. I was18 and a Senior when the U.S. landed Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin on the Moon in December 1969 and I also watched it live. In March 1972 I was in USAF Basic Training when Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin visited Lackland AFB in San Antonio and I got his Autograph on the back of a "Gig Slip", since lost. It was Easter Sunday, April 2, 1972, one week before Graduation.
The Apollo 11 crew are my hero’s…but honestly if talking guts…the of Apollo 8 took a massive risk…they really were going into uncharted territory which paved the way for the moon landings .❤
I remember the flight like it was yesterday. What shocked me was how audacious it was. NASA was driven by an engineering culture which demands incremental steps towards reaching a goal. Apollo 8 went to the moon after the first Apollo flight which was a test drive of Saturn V and the systems in the command module. ( This, after almost two years of reengineering the command module after the Apollo 6 fire.) The "Space Race" was still real which motivated the decision to try for the moon. How high were the risks? Lovell's wife asked Gene Krantz head of mission control. He told her that it was a fifty percent chance that the astronauts would make it back alive. Apollo 13 verified how dangerous this new technology was.
34:00 To me, I feel like "Earthrise" is one of the most important photographs in the History of Photography. And it's position there is cemented in time. I was 8, and lived across the state from the Cape. I was entranced by the Space Age.
One more reason why I'm proud to have been born in a time to witness great events like this first hand and to be able to relive it using today's technology.
This mission, combined with Apollo 11 were among America's greatest achievements - indeed, the world. I was four & a half when this historic event transpired, & I can recall my parents - & their friends - in constant conversation; if only I had been old enough to appreciate their excitement at that time; the Lunar Landing, some seven months later, was for me, even more exciting; my older brother, Simon, took great pains to explain to me what was going on - at least as much as a thirteen year old could - he was very technically astute, & more than happy to impart his knowledge to me; it was that enthusiasm that encouraged my own subsequent research into what was beyond the earth's outer limits.....& for that I remain ever greatful. Simon was killed on the last day of May, 1970; he was fourteen; not a day goes by when I don't wonder what he would be doing (now) in this twenty-first century....
All of this was just wonderful and awe-inspiring. Crazy how back then humans had their eyes on the universe and space, and now on their screens and smartphones. @35:00 those were powerful words.
17:00 - I'll never forget that Time Magazine cover!!! I kept our copy of it for years but eventually, I lost it. Most people forget that we (the U.S.) did all of our spaceflights in full view of the world which compounds the embarrassment of any failures, whereas the Soviets hid everything from the public until they had a success! Theoretically, they could have sent thirty men on Moon missions with all of them dying before finally having success and shouting, "Look at how great we are!!" when in fact, they were nothing of the kind. Gagarin didn't fly his spacecraft, it was controlled 100% from the ground, so technically, he did little more than Laika! Still, you gotta give the guy credit! Flying on Soviet spaceflights was the epitome of bravery! I'm amazed that the spacecraft took off considering the size of his balls! He was a true pro and probably could have piloted his craft if necessary, I don't really know how much leeway he was given if things went sideways on him. . Alan Shepherd and John Glenn both controlled their crafts and it took amazing piloting skills for their missions to be successful! One of the reasons, I think, that Apollo 11 was successful, was because we had pilots who could take control and complete missions when a computer was incapable of pulling it off on its own.
To those who disbelieve, I would simply say, that’s your right to think so. But, for the remainder of us, we can enjoy knowing what we believe to be so. I don’t believe in God, but I’m happy to let those who do to carry on doing so. See? I don’t need to make comments to them, I happily exist side by side with them. Try it yourselves, you will feel less angry and frustrated. ‘Cause you know what? We just don’t care what you say 😊
so the moon samples sent to labs all over the world are fake too? You clearly enjoy insulting the intelligence of many thousands of academic who are even now finding new insights into the moon's composition@@David-cv1se
And that robot teaches us more than all the manned missions together. Same with mars. The moon landings were scientific missions. Why risk lives for science when you can build a robot for 10x less money, that never gets tired
It was an amazing time for the USA. What’s sad is we have thousands of times the computing power and propulsion tech today that we had back then. Why haven’t we gone back? The country has lost the drive and pride and cohesiveness to pull it off! Now Congress can’t even make a decision. Opposing sides can’t be in a room together. Everyone in the media seems to have decided their job is to breed hate. I’m not sure we will ever have the capability as a country to pull something like this off again. I’m so glad I’ve lived when I am and remember these wonderful times for the country.
There is an obvious answer to many of the questions u ask. Its not 'drive' and 'cohesiveness'. Its not the computing power and propulsion tech. Its not even the availability of resources, we are richer than ever. The need to create a moon base sounds like it is an urgent requirement to occupy Mars. I am biting my lip so that I dont start yet another pathetic endless argument about the manned landings 53 years ago. Yes, it IS sad. So we must wait until the most amazing feat is repeated. I have been waiting quite a while now, Ive given up. God Bless.
I love the fact they didn’t want to send it without a lunar module as they might need it as a life boat. And on Apollo 13, also with Jim Lovell, did just that.
Apollo 8 did not take a lunar module. They took something they called a 'lunar test article'. It was basically a non-operable piece of mass equivalent to what the lunar lander's mass would be. The ACTUAL lunar module wasn't ready to fly yet.
Praise God Almighty! Our Creator is Wonderful,Holy and worthy to be praised. So cool our astronauts read some Scripture!!! That's the way it was in those days. Miss them terribly. I'm 63 now, but I remember those days with a smile. So sad to see our world now. Take us home Lord. Come quickly. ✝️❤🙏
No, they had some pretty powerful programming brought to bear, the problem was the computers took up whole floors of dedicated computer rooms, so they had to stay on the ground. The data was then uploaded to the spacecraft. During the Apollo 13 crisis they basically confiscated all the university mainframes around the country to crunch their numbers.
W0w, I forgot all about the bible verses being spoken during this. Imagine an alien race listening in on that and thinking what kind of crazy species this must be.
I am still mesmerized how inspiring Kennedy's words obviously were, resulting in the USA actually achieve the goal before the decade was over. Goes to show he was loved and admired by everybody. And he deserved to be. In my opinion he was the best human being ever to have been president, with Obama a very close second. I write this from the hart, not motivated by any political point of view. I'm not even American. I am from Europe. Ok, the will to beat the Russians definitely was a very strong motivation, but still... I was six years old when on vacation in Italy, together with my father I watched on a portable black and white tv how Armstrong made his first steps on the moon. Something I will never forget as long as I will live.
@@eq1373 Are you in this for popularity reasons? I am not, so your comment is pointless. After the Trump disaster every other former president has gone up significantly on the popularity scale. Besides, if Obama is so unpopular according to you, how come he was elected and than re-elected? And how come most of the TH-cam videos on Obama to this day go viral? Moreover, assuming to be speaking for other people is a sign of narcissism. I don't understand your urge to politicize matters. I was clearly reffering to the human beings, not the politicians. Are you MAGA? If you are going to respond please do not litter the comment area with conspiracy theories. I am resting my case no matter what, so you might want to save yourself the bother and potential (further) embarrassment.
Am I the only weird one here ? Recently TH-cam has been bombarding me with heaps of documentaries about the moon landing back in the 60s ! Am I missing something ?
If you watch even one video on a particular topic, you've doomed yourself to getting years of videos just like it in your feed. I still have recommendations from videos I saw three and four years ago.
Buzz Aldrin would slap this entire comment section for the lack of brain cells. Present technology has changed (yes, partly thank the space race for that), those of Apollo are long retired or have passed. Like 2/3 of tech and work for achieving such a goal needs to be totally redone. The massive computer power we have now doesn't solve necessarily more than they were able to do back then with specific calculation programs relying more on manual input using potato power. It's not about how much, but what you do with it. They had it figured out, if you can't comprehend that's on you.
I was expecting the comment section to be peppered with people who are unconvinced, but almost all comments are quite appreciative. Well done everyone.
1:27 Flight operations director says 50/50 chance of safe return? I don’t believe this could be a complete quotation, while the risk was very high, I don’t believe they would have received the go ahead were the odds that bad. A failure would have jeopardized the entire program.
What was never really clear is if Kraft meant 50:50 about mission success or 50:50 about survival. The latter is what Susan Borman understood, but Kraft in some interviews was more ambiguos, more leaning to the mission success version...
....dah the Decade was running out, as the funding spree... NASA mission Director had said least 30 would die trying for that giant Leap. "Threlfall’s was the first official wager in the Space Race, and the odds were not in his favor: Famous bookmakers William Hill allowed him odds of 1,000 to 1 “for any man, woman or child, from any nation on Earth, being on the Moon, or any other planet, star or heavenly body of comparable distance from Earth, before January, 1971.” What lunar bettors didn’t know was that NASA also gave the moon landing long odds. Only months before Threlfall’s wager, a NASA-commissioned risk assessment had forecast the chance of successfully fulfilling Kennedy’s decreed moon landing at just 1 in 20." Even positive Crew after "successful Journeys" >>> ”Armstrong told interviewers on the flight’s 30th anniversary, “but only a 50-50 chance of making a landing on that first attempt.” Buzz Aldrin had it about there too. “I think we will escape with our skins,” Michael Collins wrote in a NASA history, “but I wouldn’t give better than even odds on a successful landing and return. There are just too many things that can go wrong.”
It is difficult to believe it happened but centuries ago mankind believed the earth was flat until proven otherwise. Yet in 2024 some although very few still believe the earth is flat. So I would say the disbelievers fit into this catagory.
Kranz did not work Apollo 8, it was Cliff Charlesworth as Lead Flight, Glynn Lunney, who did the big moment of LOI, and the new guys Gerry Griffin and Milt Windler. So for once Lunney gets the credit he deserves. On console, he was the best anyway as lots of the controllers of the time confirm. He was just mich more humble and never sought the limelight... It was him who did the most important shift on Apollo 13, but as the movie completely focused on Kranz, very few people know, especially as Glynn never bragged about it in public.
14:05 historical revisionism added by the same person on every single space film. No, the lunar module (or lander as he calls it) was never intended to be a “lifeboat” at that time. It only became a “lifeboat” by chance on Apollo 13, and was never considered a lifeboat by NASA after 13 either. The lunar module’s engine was also useless to “get home”. It was used in Apollo 13 to speed up the return home, used in conjunction with the third stage or command module engine. Its descent stage engine didn’t have the fuel to “get home”. It’s OMS could be used to help course correct, but that’s about it. If the third stage engine died on the way to or from the moon - so did the crew, unless they’re far enough along (they were always subject to earth’s gravity even at the moon and would always fall back to earth - the concern is how long it takes to get back) to where they’d still be alive on splashdown. Source on the lifeboat nonsense: owning plenty of NASA SP series books written and published prior to Apollo 8. 29:58 - no, if the engine malfunctioned, they wouldn’t hurtle into space. At TLI 2 days earlier, they were always on a free return trajectory. They’d have simply circled the moon using its gravity and come back to earth. The hurtle into space piece would only happen if they a) burned at the wrong time and b) had enough fuel to get to both lunar and Earth escape velocity. They didn’t have enough fuel for b to happen. Free return trajectory btw is what Apollo 13 used. Am not making this sound easy - none of this was, but there’s a lot of inaccuracies in this documentary that make the engineers and scientists who planned for this seem almost callous.
First time someone attempted flight, failures and death. First time climbing Everest, fails and death. Flying to the damn moon which is a magnitude more difficult, barely an inconvenience 🤣🤣🤣
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 leave Earth's gravitational pull and orbit the moon. The historic journey captivated people around the world.
Wrong. Yes people tuned in to false information. Stop Lying.
No one went to the moon 😊.
@@bluesky6985 Is that because the Earth is flat?
I remember watching this live. I followed James Lovell's history in space fight. Little did I know that his niece was in my class.
I found out his niece was in my class during Apollo 13. Our whole class went down to watch the splash down on the largest color TV in the school.
@@TheLittlered1961 Apollo 13 was a scam
Major General William Anders just crashed his plane today in the San Juan Islands. On Apollo 8 he gave us THE picture of the 🌎 that Some say brought the awareness of our planets preciousness, and the beginning of the environmental movement. Rest in Peace Sir and thank you!
I'm waiting for some half wit to say how suspicious that is, and that he was about to confess it was all a fake.
Perfect, minus one lier🎉
Yes I remember this so well - I was 13 and it was Christmas day here in Australia as far as I remember - we all held our breath as Apollo 8 disappeared behind the moon. What a time for a teenage boy to be alive!
I was 15...🌈😃👍🌈
I was 18 at the time, a top science student and an insufferable nerd. It never crossed my mind back then that anyone could doubt this happened, because it seemed obvious that we had the technology, the money, and the will to do it. I've since chatted with many Apollo deniers, and most of them are either too young to have experienced it live, or have so little understanding of physics and technology that their opinions are worthless.
I was a teenager during Apollo, and a science nerd as well. Became an engineer, recently retired. It's sad that with so much information at your fingertips today that people are seduced by TH-cam conspiracies, accepting them at face value without any verification. And you are right, listening to many of their comments makes it obvious that they do not understand science and technology, nor do they know anything about the Apollo program. Yet they speak if it with great confidence. They are a small minority, but I fear their numbers may be growing, as we get farther away from the events.
Well! I saw it on telly IRL....but we never went. Sorry to say!
@@SPDATA1 So I guess you fit in the second category. How did they fake the Moon rocks? Or being tracked to the Moon and back? Those are unfakeable even today.
@@SPDATA1 "I saw it on telly IRL...", and that's the extent of your knowledge on the subject, so in your mind it never happened. Maybe you shouldn't comment on things you know nothing about.
Funny, studying physics and engineering in college is what helped me get over the cognitive dissonance and realize this is all a huge lie! In what field is your degree?
I was 8 years old and spent Christmas vacation following the flight. What a time it was. Yes, Apollo 8 saved 68.
I was also 8 years old.
To be honest, I can’t remember watching the Apollo 8 mission, but I can vividly remember watching those that followed.
I remenber it well. My oarents had just replaced our old black and white TV, with a brand new RCA Color Console. We had the family over for Christmas, with a dozen grandkids running about. We kids spent our Christmas watching Color, Cartoons and Cronkite. Since liftoff a few days earlier, my parents, my 4yr old sister and i had been glued to the broadcasts whenever they were on.
I was 8yrs old as well! I was obsessed with our Space Program since The Liberty & Aurora mission of Gemini Spacecraft! Even today, at the age of 63, I’m still in love with space exploration
Apollo 8 in some respects is a greater feat than Apollo 11. It was a "go for broke" mission to put the Apollo program back on schedule after the tragedy of Apollo 1 that killed three astronauts, a launchpad test that reveled the fatal flaws of the command module. Without the success of this flight, there would have been no Apollo 11, no Neil Armstrong proclaiming "That's one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind".
I was a college student, turning 21 on December 25th. Looking back, this magnificent achievemen was the best birthday present I ever received.
I had the privilege of being at the Cape for this launch. I was a (very) young USAF Information Officer taking a group of VIPs from Eglin AFB to see the liftoff. My chest vibrated when the rocket roared to life. I recently came across the slides I took, and am still in awe of the technology that was evidenced that day. It did indeed save 1968!
awesome story and wow how cool is that?!
How true is this story?
I'm not going to
Believe much anymore?
I was there. I felt it. I saw it. I heard it. Thousands of people around me saw it, heard it and felt it take off. I have photos that I took with my camera. It was real. @@ben8405
it's was just showtime...fake ...
@@Vic-hl7wm Try and prove it, then you might convince someone.
Superb documentary which brought back wonderful memories of when I was a young teenager and watched theses events as they happened. Nothing can compare with those magic days of the Apollo Space Program. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it
I KNOW that Father Jeoa exists.
I was 10 when Neil Armstrong landed on the moon.
I KNOW that Armstrong DID land on the moon.
How do I KNOW?
ALL THE PHYSICAL LAWS that were put into operation by the RIGHT REVEREND FATHER JEOA..........put those Laws of Physics into operation
I remember that Christmas Eve, exactly where I was, and the exultation I experienced as an eleven year old boy sitting on the floor in my uncle's living room. And when they read from Genesis it deeply moved my heart. And I can still hear, like it just happened, their sign off: "Good night, good luck, merry Christmas, and God bless all of you, all of you on the good earth."
I was 8 years old at the time. Followed every Apollo mission from Apollo 8 on and scrap booked the newspaper articles.
Great documentary of an extraordinary historical achievement. As young as I was this made me so proud to be an American.
Great Doc.
I grew up with this program.
Any Boomer who came of age during this time went forward throughout their career with this spirit of excellence in mind.We are are pretty much done now...
...I wish current younger generations are able to find an inspiration for their lives that is similar to what we had.
Gen X here and ib take quite a lot of inspiration from the early space program, especially Apollo 8 and 13 and the great Commander Lovell. Who's still alive by the way.
By God, I'm shocked, a gen z that can think. 😅
This generation is focused on OnlyFans Tiktok, and other social media. They have no time for science and technology. Sorry, America is finished.
I remember it well as a young man, stayed glued to all the updates, and it was around Christmas😊
I listen fo radio abaut Apollo-11 on loon in 1969 wen a will in Mikolajv Ukrayn. This vil bi fantastik.
Must be true then if you can remember it was around Christmas.
These stories never get old. Love them all and their bravery
I love that near final line "Thanks, you made 1968". And I remember Japanese reporters who'd never heard the Genesis story ask about where to get a copy. They were told in the Bible in each of their hotel rooms.
GOD PROOFS HIS WORD.
Amazing documentary, True heroes, In school we used to watch All of the Take off in school. But apollo eight took off during christmas break, Brought back a lot of memories. The crew reading the bible as they orbit at the moon, Truly amazing. Brought tears to my eyes. And the photograph of the Earth.
It's truly amazing, When you look at the earth from space, You truly see how fragile it is and all alone. One day I believe there will be total peace on earth, I could go on, But remember the words, In the beginning
RIP to all the astronauts that have paid with their lives 🙏
Three were murdered. 🚀☠☠☠
RIP you your mental capacity thinking anyone was actually inside any of those model rockets
@@David-cv1se just showing my respect to all the astronauts that have lost their lives all the fatal accidents that have occurred in the past, nothing wrong with that is there 🤷♂️
Yes three were murdered. 🚀☠☠☠☠
@@David-cv1se I'm sorry your education system failed you so badly.
What an incredible decade. The 60's were a time beyond anything that anyone could ever have imagined. I'm privileged to have experienced that period in history that will never be forgotten.
As a 8 year old I watched the launch and Christmas Eve message on my 12 b/w Tv.
Me too, in Belgium
I was 7 years old and continue to be a solid fan of the Apollo program. Have a Saturn 5 rocket model in my home office. It was a special time in history.
Myself, I had 6 days in utero to go on Christmas Eve of '68, and am so grateful for this miraculous sliver in time. A sort of cosmic buffer between all the societal breakdown and tragedy that year and my arrival. Seeing the beautiful blue earth, home, from our lunar companions orbit for the first time... the courage despite a 50/50 risk ratio... the pioneering aspect(s) making possible the landing missions to follow... the profoundly moving crew messages... and for saving 196f'ing8!
🚀💜
Thank you for the very interesting video please keep the great videos coming from Scotland 😊
greetings to Scotland and we will!
I was 9 at that time.I remember praying for them and the mission.This was a really big deal at the time
My question -- Why can't we do great things like this again? The Apollo program may not have solved all the problems in the world, but it brought people together, if only for a short time. We could use something inspirational like that now.
"Again!" 😅 We can't do these things because the earth is a flat, infinite plane with our "world" bound by the ice wall beyond our local sun's influence, the "firmament" of heaven above us separating the "waters" above that from us, and God knows what beneath us, and other "worlds" with their own local suns, at various points on the flat infinite frozen plane. Maybe! Why not? No less proof of that than the NASA B.S.!
Apple Computers and Microsoft are pretty great.
@@seaturtledog God bless!
BECAUSE IT IS EXPENSIVE
@@gowdsake7103 them they should stop doing it altogether. But no, it's not, is just not possible and you're still being robbed.
I saw this documentary a few times.
It's one of the best movies ever.
No artificial film can compete.
Well done
When this happened, I was 10 years old and a believer in the bible, etc. because that's how I was taught.
Nowadays, I'm not even close to being a religious man but the reading of the creation story is still over-the-top poignant for me!
Hey you Free Documentary people- I just watched this again, and I have to say that you did a great job of documenting a legendary accomplishment.
Thanks from rainy Vienna, Scott
I remember this mission so well. Fabulous documentary.
No np no!
No!
@@ben8405 Triggered much?
As do I - was 8 years old. Interviews in this documentary that I've never seen before - Leonov, the astronauts and the astronauts wives. Always learn something new with every documentary I see and never tire of seeing new ones.
I was nine years old when Apollo 8 orbited the moon and i remember watching the tv broadcast of Christmas eve 1968 with my family.
Great doc. Uplifting. Thx. So proud of everyone involved and so honored to be alive during this window of time in the Earth’s history. -Shows what we can accomplish when we focus and pull together. Cheers.
I was 17 at the time it was an astonishing achievement.
Very moving documentary. Brought me to tears.
come on grow tf up not even small girls cry to this 🤣
@@LOWERCASEMANAre you fiction?
Apollo 8 was my favorite mission.
As a Canadian, the reason this mission still resonates with me to this day is not only was it an American achievement but you brought the rest of us along with you.
In my opinion it had an even greater impact on our civilization than Apollo 11.
And that Christmas Eve telecast was one for the ages.
I was thinking the same thing. the crew of Apollo 8 were the first to get to the Moon. Apollo 11 only went one step further than Apollo 8 and landed on the Moon. Apollo 8 crew were pioneers.
Agreed. It was almost spiritual the Apollo 8 mission was.
Still tear up a little when I see the vid of them doing the Genesis broadcast.
Mankind achievement!
@@Scottocaster6668 A plaque on the descent stage of the Eagle reads, "Here men from the planet Earth first set foot on the moon, July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind "
thank you for this documentary. never knew about this history. so inspiring
Thank you - The memories of this event and the moon landing were indelibly etched on my mind as an 11 year old boy from South Africa following it all on radio (no TV). I will never forget the emotions it brought forth. Feels like yesterday to me.
fake
@@Vic-hl7wm Nope.
What beautiful memories, many thanks for those extraordinary emotions ❤️
Apollo 8 is NASA's boldest mission till this day!
I was 17 and a Junior in High School and watched all this live as it happened.
I was18 and a Senior when the U.S. landed Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin on the Moon in December 1969 and I also watched it live.
In March 1972 I was in USAF Basic Training when Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin visited Lackland AFB in San Antonio and I got his Autograph on the back of a "Gig Slip", since lost.
It was Easter Sunday, April 2, 1972, one week before Graduation.
The most epic space mission ever
broo the creation story hit differently watching the astronauts recite it from our beautiful celestial body ❤
The comments on this video made me lose brain cells. Flat earthers out in force these days.
Apollo 8 was the only rewarding event of an otherwise disastrously eventful year. He was right--"Apollo 8 did SAVE 1968."
The Apollo 11 crew are my hero’s…but honestly if talking guts…the of Apollo 8 took a massive risk…they really were going into uncharted territory which paved the way for the moon landings .❤
I remember the flight like it was yesterday. What shocked me was how audacious it was. NASA was driven by an engineering culture which demands incremental steps towards reaching a goal. Apollo 8 went to the moon after the first Apollo flight which was a test drive of Saturn V and the systems in the command module. ( This, after almost two years of reengineering the command module after the Apollo 6 fire.)
The "Space Race" was still real which motivated the decision to try for the moon.
How high were the risks? Lovell's wife asked Gene Krantz head of mission control. He told her that it was a fifty percent chance that the astronauts would make it back alive. Apollo 13 verified how dangerous this new technology was.
Krantz said this before or after Apollo 13 had had their problem?
@@gives_bad_advice To his credit he told her during the crisis. I believe she later said those were better odds than she expected to hear.
@@levin448 In an informal interview, Lovell himself throws out the number 10%, for the sake of the conversation.
@@levin448 Lovell also has said that she is the reason he never again went into space. Understandable.
As a Christian, It makes me emotional hearing the Creation story in the moon.
One of the best documentaries I've ever watched.
🤣
Agree!
34:00 To me, I feel like "Earthrise" is one of the most important photographs in the History of Photography. And it's position there is cemented in time. I was 8, and lived across the state from the Cape. I was entranced by the Space Age.
One more reason why I'm proud to have been born in a time to witness great events like this first hand and to be able to relive it using today's technology.
This mission, combined with Apollo 11 were among America's greatest achievements - indeed, the world. I was four & a half when this historic event transpired, & I can recall my parents - & their friends - in constant conversation; if only I had been old enough to appreciate their excitement at that time; the Lunar Landing, some seven months later, was for me, even more exciting; my older brother, Simon, took great pains to explain to me what was going on - at least as much as a thirteen year old could - he was very technically astute, & more than happy to impart his knowledge to me; it was that enthusiasm that encouraged my own subsequent research into what was beyond the earth's outer limits.....& for that I remain ever greatful. Simon was killed on the last day of May, 1970; he was fourteen; not a day goes by when I don't wonder what he would be doing (now) in this twenty-first century....
May he rest in peace. So sad and I’m so sorry. I’m also sorry for and about all the deniers still out there. Stu X
Thank you for your kind sentiments, Stuart. For those in denial, what can one offer other than pity... Do take care, Sir.
I was just one year old.
Doesn't matter what age you were, I suspect you appreciated the event, subsequently.
Don’t forget Apollo 13
The fact that we did all that with that level of technology is amazing.
They didn't its impossible
@@tonynoaa3950 ya they have never been up there its all a lie
@@Bailey-zn2je people believe anything if they don't know the facts.
Kidneys man. Kidneys
The crucial technologies, rocketry, radio, and computers, had been invented decades earlier.
All of this was just wonderful and awe-inspiring. Crazy how back then humans had their eyes on the universe and space, and now on their screens and smartphones. @35:00 those were powerful words.
17:00 - I'll never forget that Time Magazine cover!!!
I kept our copy of it for years but eventually, I lost it.
Most people forget that we (the U.S.) did all of our spaceflights in full view of the world which compounds the embarrassment of any failures, whereas the Soviets hid everything from the public until they had a success!
Theoretically, they could have sent thirty men on Moon missions with all of them dying before finally having success and shouting, "Look at how great we are!!" when in fact, they were nothing of the kind.
Gagarin didn't fly his spacecraft, it was controlled 100% from the ground, so technically, he did little more than Laika! Still, you gotta give the guy credit! Flying on Soviet spaceflights was the epitome of bravery! I'm amazed that the spacecraft took off considering the size of his balls! He was a true pro and probably could have piloted his craft if necessary, I don't really know how much leeway he was given if things went sideways on him.
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Alan Shepherd and John Glenn both controlled their crafts and it took amazing piloting skills for their missions to be successful!
One of the reasons, I think, that Apollo 11 was successful, was because we had pilots who could take control and complete missions when a computer was incapable of pulling it off on its own.
I was living in Honolulu and was watching on my small black and white TV when I heard those tremendous words, those true words from Genesis chapter 1
Awesome picture of Earth from the Moon.
There are no pictures of the earth from the moon.
@@tonynoaa3950 The 1 in the film picture. I saw it in 1987. You telling me it not real?
@@PeterAnderson-z4y yes it isn't real.
@@tonynoaa3950 No, Earthrise is real, just like all of the other photos taken by the Apollo missions.
@@Hobbes746 😂😂😂😂
Jim Lovell, way to go!
Waiting for Artimis to walk on the moon in the
2026 Space Odyssey!
Very good documentary, thank you for posting it
Just think all the engineers and testing to create the spacecraft to go to the moon and return safely back to earth❤❤❤❤❤❤
To those who disbelieve, I would simply say, that’s your right to think so. But, for the remainder of us, we can enjoy knowing what we believe to be so. I don’t believe in God, but I’m happy to let those who do to carry on doing so. See? I don’t need to make comments to them, I happily exist side by side with them. Try it yourselves, you will feel less angry and frustrated. ‘Cause you know what? We just don’t care what you say 😊
Nasa going nowhere since 1958.
You never went there. You can't physically verify that ANYONE went there & you can't physically prove your fantasy land of space exists
so the moon samples sent to labs all over the world are fake too? You clearly enjoy insulting the intelligence of many thousands of academic who are even now finding new insights into the moon's composition@@David-cv1se
You can't believe God exists either, yet plenty do.
@PeteYeado There's a BIG difference between believing & factual physical evidence which of course you can't provide nor can anyone else
I'm glad they got home safe.
Amazin'. Sadly today NASA and corporations, landed a robot on the moon, more than 50 years from this epic journey...
Nothing sad about that though.
well If you say so...@@JonnoPlays
@andrese.castillo8869 what's sad about it?
@@eq1373 connect the dots my friend
And that robot teaches us more than all the manned missions together. Same with mars. The moon landings were scientific missions. Why risk lives for science when you can build a robot for 10x less money, that never gets tired
Eu tinha 14 anos na época que saudade!
It was an amazing time for the USA. What’s sad is we have thousands of times the computing power and propulsion tech today that we had back then. Why haven’t we gone back? The country has lost the drive and pride and cohesiveness to pull it off! Now Congress can’t even make a decision. Opposing sides can’t be in a room together. Everyone in the media seems to have decided their job is to breed hate. I’m not sure we will ever have the capability as a country to pull something like this off again. I’m so glad I’ve lived when I am and remember these wonderful times for the country.
Well said. The country was at odds back then, but not to the magnitude it is today.
Elon just launched ANOTHER rocket to the moon... The US may not have "it" anymore, but SpaceX sure does!!!
I was going to say the same thing. Wonder why we haven't gone back? Not sure if it will happen again?
There is an obvious answer to many of the questions u ask. Its not 'drive' and 'cohesiveness'. Its not the computing power and propulsion tech. Its not even the availability of resources, we are richer than ever. The need to create a moon base sounds like it is an urgent requirement to occupy Mars. I am biting my lip so that I dont start yet another pathetic endless argument about the manned landings 53 years ago. Yes, it IS sad. So we must wait until the most amazing feat is repeated. I have been waiting quite a while now, Ive given up. God Bless.
I love the fact they didn’t want to send it without a lunar module as they might need it as a life boat. And on Apollo 13, also with Jim Lovell, did just that.
Apollo 8 did not take a lunar module. They took something they called a 'lunar test article'. It was basically a non-operable piece of mass equivalent to what the lunar lander's mass would be. The ACTUAL lunar module wasn't ready to fly yet.
Poor old jim lovell, travelled to the moon more then any other man and never stood on it.
Well he wouldn't be famous if he did walk on the moon but true I'd rather walk on the moon
@@michealnyers184 Probably wouldnt have been played by tom hanks in a film,thats true
I wasn't born yet but seems awesome
Praise God Almighty! Our Creator is Wonderful,Holy and worthy to be praised. So cool our astronauts read some Scripture!!! That's the way it was in those days. Miss them terribly. I'm 63 now, but I remember those days with a smile. So sad to see our world now. Take us home Lord. Come quickly. ✝️❤🙏
The country that accomplished this is long gone
Unified, to a certain degree.
Then there's the Administration that killed it.
It remains a historic accomplishment that USA was first to put a human on the lunar surface.
Really? With Elon Musk planning to send people to Mars? Which is 1000 times harder than going to the moon! Sounds like America is not gone at all!
Фантастіка. Всєго через 25 років після полєта першой ракети фон Брауна, Человєк прілєтєл на луну!!!!
Robert Godard should not be discounted..he inspired Von Braun..
the most best ever Hollywood show
You're not really very bright are you.
You just stay on yes rocker bub and drink shine
Rembering the contribution of Katherine Johnson [NASA mathematician]
Lots of us are glad she got recognized.
Get the girl to check the numbers!
The most dangerous mission of all was Apollo 8. No lunar module. Only the command and service module and if there was a damage in it, that was all.
I still feel sorry for Jim Lovell. 2 times close but never a cigar.
It was just a slingshot trip in advance of an actual landing for testing
No, it was not a slingshot mission, went into orbit for a lot of orbits.
Sure, but a slingshot over 270,00 miles, designed to come within 64 miles of tge surface. And then hit an imaginary spot in the ocean.
No biggee.
Wow. Kinda simplistic attitude there. I'm sure you could've done better though.
kaloni mire pushoni qet. vikend. ju pershendes
They did this on orders of magnitudes less computing power than we have in watches today.
No, they had some pretty powerful programming brought to bear, the problem was the computers took up whole floors of dedicated computer rooms, so they had to stay on the ground. The data was then uploaded to the spacecraft.
During the Apollo 13 crisis they basically confiscated all the university mainframes around the country to crunch their numbers.
Also, calculating orbital mechanics is not all that processor hungry. Any modern computer game requires thousands of times the power.
30:06 Oh, silly little lady...THAT'S when the MOON'S out! Now let's get those snacks out there!
W0w, I forgot all about the bible verses being spoken during this.
Imagine an alien race listening in on that and thinking what kind of crazy species this must be.
I bet you’re really fun at parties
Truth may not make everyone happy, but the truth is the truth. Thanks for your comment.
Imagine Aliens being Theist, way to go to create Life out of chemicals soup.
@@wildboar7473 Ha ha ha ha you funny AND ignorant
I am still mesmerized how inspiring Kennedy's words obviously were, resulting in the USA actually achieve the goal before the decade was over. Goes to show he was loved and admired by everybody. And he deserved to be. In my opinion he was the best human being ever to have been president, with Obama a very close second. I write this from the hart, not motivated by any political point of view. I'm not even American. I am from Europe. Ok, the will to beat the Russians definitely was a very strong motivation, but still...
I was six years old when on vacation in Italy, together with my father I watched on a portable black and white tv how Armstrong made his first steps on the moon. Something I will never forget as long as I will live.
I think you lost a lot of people at Obama.
@@eq1373 Are you in this for popularity reasons? I am not, so your comment is pointless. After the Trump disaster every other former president has gone up significantly on the popularity scale. Besides, if Obama is so unpopular according to you, how come he was elected and than re-elected? And how come most of the TH-cam videos on Obama to this day go viral? Moreover, assuming to be speaking for other people is a sign of narcissism. I don't understand your urge to politicize matters. I was clearly reffering to the human beings, not the politicians. Are you MAGA? If you are going to respond please do not litter the comment area with conspiracy theories. I am resting my case no matter what, so you might want to save yourself the bother and potential (further) embarrassment.
"Our Germans are better than Their Germans"
The distance between Buffalo and Rochester (NY) is roughly the same distance as their orbit around the Moon.
Am I the only weird one here ? Recently TH-cam has been bombarding me with heaps of documentaries about the moon landing back in the 60s ! Am I missing something ?
If you watch even one video on a particular topic, you've doomed yourself to getting years of videos just like it in your feed. I still have recommendations from videos I saw three and four years ago.
Trying to brainwash and deceive a new generation. Look at the televised interview when they landed.😮
NASA’s QUEEN. 🇺🇸
Buzz Aldrin would slap this entire comment section for the lack of brain cells. Present technology has changed (yes, partly thank the space race for that), those of Apollo are long retired or have passed. Like 2/3 of tech and work for achieving such a goal needs to be totally redone. The massive computer power we have now doesn't solve necessarily more than they were able to do back then with specific calculation programs relying more on manual input using potato power. It's not about how much, but what you do with it. They had it figured out, if you can't comprehend that's on you.
I flew with Buzz in 67 he would be fine with this comment section my girl
@@Maxtyur There were no comment sections in '67, only message boards. If you really flew with Buzz back in the good 'ol days, you'd know.
@@mansonabc0001 how dare you good sir I was saying Tik Tok ,Facebook, instagram, however messages can be reprinted and deleted by the user.
@@Maxtyur No, 'this comment section' clearly only refers to TH-cam. The last time there was this much BS i was flying Apollo 13 with Jim Lovell.
@@mansonabc0001 I flew with Jim in 66 we where airborne over Hanoi when we'll things got crazy we were taken flack from the commies on the mainland.
Yep,I was 13. One besutiful Christmas Eve.
I was expecting the comment section to be peppered with people who are unconvinced, but almost all comments are quite appreciative. Well done everyone.
We saw it on TV so it must be real.
"You can tell it's real because it looks so fake." - Elon Musk
Not to mention scientists all over the world were monitoring the fight including Russians and none claimed it was faked … interesting that
Or it is fake like All Apollo missions.🙃😎
You are not so sharp are you
@@robertmatus6859 What is your evidence other than ignorance ?
1:27 Flight operations director says 50/50 chance of safe return? I don’t believe this could be a complete quotation, while the risk was very high, I don’t believe they would have received the go ahead were the odds that bad. A failure would have jeopardized the entire program.
His wife quotes it word for word later on
40:06 here you go
What was never really clear is if Kraft meant 50:50 about mission success or 50:50 about survival. The latter is what Susan Borman understood, but Kraft in some interviews was more ambiguos, more leaning to the mission success version...
....dah the Decade was running out, as the funding spree...
NASA mission Director had said least 30 would die trying for that giant Leap.
"Threlfall’s was the first official wager in the Space Race, and the odds were not in his favor: Famous bookmakers William Hill allowed him odds of 1,000 to 1 “for any man, woman or child, from any nation on Earth, being on the Moon, or any other planet, star or heavenly body of comparable distance from Earth, before January, 1971.”
What lunar bettors didn’t know was that NASA also gave the moon landing long odds. Only months before Threlfall’s wager, a NASA-commissioned risk assessment had forecast the chance of successfully fulfilling Kennedy’s decreed moon landing at just 1 in 20."
Even positive Crew after "successful Journeys" >>> ”Armstrong told interviewers on the flight’s 30th anniversary, “but only a 50-50 chance of making a landing on that first attempt.” Buzz Aldrin had it about there too. “I think we will escape with our skins,” Michael Collins wrote in a NASA history, “but I wouldn’t give better than even odds on a successful landing and return. There are just too many things that can go wrong.”
The best Hollywood Production ever.!
Not very smart are you
Yeah only the rocket lanuch is real... the fakery is so contrasting
I was in the school when this happened. God bless America 🇺🇸
It is difficult to believe it happened but centuries ago mankind believed the earth was flat until proven otherwise. Yet in 2024 some although very few still believe the earth is flat. So I would say the disbelievers fit into this catagory.
England has Ritchie Sunak in charge & he comes across as being a bit slippery so he’s definitely not a Tortoise 🐢
Only one left from that historic mission.
In the 1960's, mankind could do that, and now, some sixty years later, we can't tell the difference between a male and a female...
Thanks for not having Gene Kranz explaining what a great man he is.
Kranz did not work Apollo 8, it was Cliff Charlesworth as Lead Flight, Glynn Lunney, who did the big moment of LOI, and the new guys Gerry Griffin and Milt Windler. So for once Lunney gets the credit he deserves. On console, he was the best anyway as lots of the controllers of the time confirm. He was just mich more humble and never sought the limelight... It was him who did the most important shift on Apollo 13, but as the movie completely focused on Kranz, very few people know, especially as Glynn never bragged about it in public.
14:05 historical revisionism added by the same person on every single space film. No, the lunar module (or lander as he calls it) was never intended to be a “lifeboat” at that time. It only became a “lifeboat” by chance on Apollo 13, and was never considered a lifeboat by NASA after 13 either. The lunar module’s engine was also useless to “get home”. It was used in Apollo 13 to speed up the return home, used in conjunction with the third stage or command module engine. Its descent stage engine didn’t have the fuel to “get home”. It’s OMS could be used to help course correct, but that’s about it. If the third stage engine died on the way to or from the moon - so did the crew, unless they’re far enough along (they were always subject to earth’s gravity even at the moon and would always fall back to earth - the concern is how long it takes to get back) to where they’d still be alive on splashdown. Source on the lifeboat nonsense: owning plenty of NASA SP series books written and published prior to Apollo 8.
29:58 - no, if the engine malfunctioned, they wouldn’t hurtle into space. At TLI 2 days earlier, they were always on a free return trajectory. They’d have simply circled the moon using its gravity and come back to earth. The hurtle into space piece would only happen if they a) burned at the wrong time and b) had enough fuel to get to both lunar and Earth escape velocity. They didn’t have enough fuel for b to happen. Free return trajectory btw is what Apollo 13 used.
Am not making this sound easy - none of this was, but there’s a lot of inaccuracies in this documentary that make the engineers and scientists who planned for this seem almost callous.
Yes this was truly a great mission!! This was yester year and to day
Struggling to do it again with all the modern technology 😂
That comment shows your ignorance of what is required to do so, and the history of how it was done the first time.
First time someone attempted flight, failures and death. First time climbing Everest, fails and death. Flying to the damn moon which is a magnitude more difficult, barely an inconvenience 🤣🤣🤣
Doing it right again😂
Doing it the first time is a whole lot harder than doing it again.
That's why this story will remain fascinating for many generations to come.
They say they lost all the old info; their dogs ate all their homework.
nice ,i miss the wisdom of george and pete,a la blacks rd.❤from jase
He's working that gum
Whenever I need a good laugh, I just come watch N.A.S.A. videos!
You're not really very bright are you.
@@jamesdaniels9418 brighter than stars in space, Buddy!
"Good Stuff," merci.
RIP Bill Anders, LMP of Apollo 8.
Can’t believe people still believe this!
Ya mum does
Smart people follow the evidence. And all of the evidence says the Apollo landings are real.