SPACE ART: Apollo 8 Heads for Lunar Christmas Eve

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(Above) The Apollo 8 spacecraft still attached to the Saturn V third (S-IVB) stage, heads for the moon at a speed of about 24,300 miles an hour.

Fast Fact: Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the Moon, entered lunar orbit on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1968.

This painting was done by North American Rockwell for NASA.