{"id":86040,"date":"2018-12-21T21:02:51","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T05:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/on-this-day-50-years-ago-apollo-8-was-en-route-to-the-moon-on-the-first-human-flight-to-lunar-orbit"},"modified":"2018-12-21T21:02:51","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T05:02:51","slug":"on-this-day-50-years-ago-apollo-8-was-en-route-to-the-moon-on-the-first-human-flight-to-lunar-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/on-this-day-50-years-ago-apollo-8-was-en-route-to-the-moon-on-the-first-human-flight-to-lunar-orbit","title":{"rendered":"On this day 50 years ago, Apollo 8 was en route to the Moon on the first human flight to lunar orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/on-this-day-50-years-ago-apollo-8-was-en-route-to-the-moon-on-the-first-human-flight-to-lunar-orbit.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Three days later, on Dec. 24, astronauts Bill Anders, Frank Borman and Jim Lovell became the first people to see the Moon\u2019s far side, did a memorable reading from Genesis and took this famous Earthrise photo. Discover more about our <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/apollo50?source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARDC5aEAPOufFIr5CDrj-uYvehYhKvVNIPS-5grQo-T1xQIh05K-h-MPyiDddc7ZdR39Qqoygo2l2mHjjog66GUncP3-vBsP3AcuHO2K7yPDAhweDAymh5Q107UEc_MmnOMbeFRCr6fvQHVOwg_19uQo99OM4_-CXpsYnWdR11Fb6UXkFk0KeLa8suvLjD3hZ6XTKqYygh9vANTvjYvJ6-wB6pbre5Fovcj-qz7sV8j9vQyKJpInQwQt5yMEXGeHJGFD-vOfBS2YuH3VCahAieocsOshh7xKBfNGPQKHnrOvJg6DI8mhMiAm9MOemRwyMf8uElF_chHVlHlbNQ&__tn__=%2ANK-R\" data-ft=\"{\u201d type\u201d:104,\u201d tn\u201d:\u201d*N\u201d}\"> #Apollo50<\/a> anniversary: <a href=\"https:\/\/go.nasa.gov\/2EImzGq\" target=\"_blank\" data-ft=\"{\u201d tn\u201d:\u201d-U\u201d}\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-lynx-mode=\"async\"><a href=\"https:\/\/go.nasa.gov\/2EImzGq\">https:\/\/go.nasa.gov\/2EImzGq<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NASA\/photos\/a.67899501771\/10156792127316772\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NASA\/photos\/a.67899501771\/10156792127316772<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three days later, on Dec. 24, astronauts Bill Anders, Frank Borman and Jim Lovell became the first people to see the Moon\u2019s far side, did a memorable reading from Genesis and took this famous Earthrise photo. Discover more about our #Apollo50 anniversary: https:\/\/go.nasa.gov\/2EImzGq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}