On Christmas Eve the Apollo astronauts mdash Frank Borman Jim Lovell and Bill Anders mdash became the first humans to enter lunar orbit As they circled the moon ten times they shared images of the moon and the earth During a live broadcast they took turns reading from Genesis At the fortieth anniversary celebration Borman said ldquo We were told that on Christmas Eve we would have the largest audience that had ever listened to a human voice And the only instructions that we got from NASA was to do something appropriate rdquo The Bible verses spoken by the Apollo
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