 Apollo 8 , the second human spaceflight mission in the United States Apollo space program , was launched on December 21 , 1968 , and became the first manned spacecraft to leave Earth orbit , reach the Earth 's Moon , orbit it and return safely to Earth . The three @-@ astronaut crew — Commander Frank Borman , Command Module Pilot James Lovell and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders — performed the first live television broadcast by people in space and the first to see the Earth as a whole planet. февруари 2018 г.
Apollo 8, the second human spaceflight mission in the United States Apollo space