{"id":57825,"date":"2016-12-27T16:40:36","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T16:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2016\/12\/27\/today-in-history-coming-home-from-the-moon-in-1968\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T10:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T10:06:07","slug":"today-in-history-coming-home-from-the-moon-in-1968","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2016\/12\/27\/today-in-history-coming-home-from-the-moon-in-1968\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in history: Coming home from the moon in 1968"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>1968: <\/b>Apollo 8 and it&#8217;s three astronauts &#8212; Frank Borman, William Anders and James Lovell Jr. &#8212; made a safe nighttime splashdown in the Pacific after the first manned mission to the moon.  <br\/> <br\/><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-smg-jwplayer-video\"><atype-video-jwplayer nostick=\"true\" playlisturl=\"https:\/\/cdn.jwplayer.com\/v2\/playlists\/fCzRqMW8?tags=161af4e1-8a11-479e-ba22-ff7617dcf70e\" aspectratio=\"16 \/ 9\" mute autostart=\"false\"><\/atype-video-jwplayer><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before orbiting the moon in preparation for the first moon landing the following year,\u00a0Borman had been an Air Force test pilot and physics professor at West Point; Anders also had been an Air Force fighter pilot, having graduated from the Naval Academy; and Lovell&#8217;s experience included a four-year tour as a Navy test pilot, according to NASA. <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/topics\/history\/features\/apollo_8.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Link: http:\/\/https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/topics\/history\/features\/apollo_8.html\">Read more about the Apollo 8 mission &#8212; and listen to Apollo 8&#8217;s famous Christmas message &#8212; on the NASA website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3000\" height=\"2416\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/apollo-122716-2.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-95415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/apollo-122716-2.jpg.jpg 3000w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/apollo-122716-2.jpg.jpg?resize=300,242 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/apollo-122716-2.jpg.jpg?resize=768,618 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/apollo-122716-2.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,825 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/apollo-122716-2.jpg.jpg?resize=1536,1237 1536w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/apollo-122716-2.jpg.jpg?resize=2048,1649 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3000px) 100vw, 3000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span>he Apollo 8 spacecraft which took three astronauts to the moon and back on a journey of more than a half million miles is hoisted aboard the USS Yorktown, Friday, Dec. 27, 1968. Recovery of the spacecraft was made in the Pacific 1000 miles south of Hawaii.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span>Photo Credit: Cliff Owen\/AP<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also happening today in the United States and elsewhere:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>1939<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">: After two days of fighting the Finns win the Battle of Kelya, driving off the Soviet 4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<sup>th<\/sup>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rifle Division with 2,000 dead, but the Finns suffer heavily in proportion to their army, with 141 dead and 375 wounded. They do, however, capture 12 anti-tank guns, 140 heavy machine guns, 200 light machine guns and 1,500 rifles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b><br\/><br\/>1944<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">: General George S. 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