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NASA astronauts' Christmas in space – from bible readings to turkey dinners and no booze
Christmas is a special time, even in space.On Christmas Eve, 1968, the crew of Apollo 8 - Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders became the first humans to orbit the Moon.With the clock ticking down on John F Kennedy’s pledge to send a man to the Moon by the end of the Sixties, Apollo 8 shot into orbit on December 21.As their command module skimmed cross the lunar surface, the NASA men beamed back images of the moon and Earth and took turns reading from the Bible, closing with a Christmas wish from Borman in which he said: “From the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas and God bless all of you — all of you on the good Earth.”After 10 lunar orbits, the little ship turned for home on Christmas morning.
