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Praxis II World and US History

Category - US Society

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Which of NASA's Apollo space program missions included a Christmas Eve orbit of the Moon in 1968?
  1. Apollo 1
  2. Apollo 7
  3. Apollo 8
  4. Apollo 11
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Answer: C - The Apollo 8 mission took man closer to the Moon than ever before when the crew orbited the heavenly body ten times on Christmas Eve. The crew - Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders - read from the Book of Genesis, which forever connected the mission to the first passage “In the beginning God...” The mission also facilitated the first man-made photograph of Earthrise.
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