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Apollo 8
The space mission that changed our view of the Earth, the rape of Nanking, WWII spy drama in the Netherlands.
At Christmas 1968, the biggest audience in TV history watched NASA's Apollo 8 mission beam back the first pictures from an orbit around the Moon. The broadcast captured the world's imagination and put America ahead of the Soviet Union in the Cold War battle to make the first lunar landing. Plus, the rape of Nanking, WWII spy drama in the Netherlands and the woman who revolutionised the treatment of the dying.
Picture: The Earth as seen from the Moon, photographed by the Apollo 8 crew (NASA)
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Tue 18 Dec 201800:06GMT
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