Apollo 8In August 1968, NASA made a courageous decision: in just sixteen weeks, the United States would launch humanity's first flight to the moon. Only the year before, three astronauts had tragically lost their lives in a spacecraft fire, and since then, the Apollo programme had been plagued by one setback after another. Meanwhile, the Russians were edging ahead in the space race, the Cold War was intensifying, and it seemed increasingly unlikely that