Live coverage of a million mile space odyssey from Earth, circling just 70 miles above the Moon's surface, by U.S. astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders. A mission beginning at Cape Kennedy on December 21st and concluding on December 27th with a splashdown in the Pacific, south of Hawaii. During that time, they will fly Apollo 8 to the Moon and circle ten times in a rehearsal for a manned landing in July 1969. Eighteen hours of coverage by NBC radio and television, including takeoff (Saturday, December 21) and landing (December 27).