<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program" id="mwATo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Apollo program">Apollo program</a>: The crew of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_8" id="mwATs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Apollo 8">Apollo 8</a> enters into orbit around the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon" id="mwATw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Moon">Moon</a>, becoming the first humans to do so. They performed ten <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_orbit" id="mwAT0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Lunar orbit">lunar orbits</a>, took the <i id="mwAT4"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthrise" id="mwAT8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Earthrise">Earthrise</a></i> photograph, broadcast live TV pictures, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_8_Genesis_reading" id="mwAUA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Apollo 8 Genesis reading">read the first ten verses of Genesis</a>.<sup about="#mwt174" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-32"}}' id="cite_ref-32" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_24#cite_note-32" id="mwAUE" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 32;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAUI">[32]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-32"><cite about="#mwt171" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFChaikin1998">Chaikin, Andrew (1998) [First published 1994]. <i id="mwCTM">A Man on the Moon</i>. New York: Penguin Books. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwCTQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwCTU" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-0-14-027201-7" id="mwCTY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-14-027201-7"><bdi id="mwCTc">978-0-14-027201-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt171" class="Z3988" id="mwCTg" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=A+Man+on+the+Moon&amp;rft.place=New+York&amp;rft.pub=Penguin+Books&amp;rft.date=1998&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-14-027201-7&amp;rft.aulast=Chaikin&amp;rft.aufirst=Andrew&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+24"></span></span>