There were three crew members of Apollo 8 (Borman, Lovell, Anders). The two women here are Valerie Anders and Susan Borman. Lovell was also married, but I'm unsure why his wife is not in this picture.
Apollo 8 took three days to travel to the Moon. It orbited ten times over the course of 20 hours, during which the crew made a Christmas Eve television broadcast where they read the first 10 verses from the Book of Genesis. At the time, the broadcast was the most watched TV program ever. source : Wikipedia
![image showing The wives of the astronauts on the Apollo 8 mission at the moment they heard their husbands voices from orbit, 1968 [ 640 x 432 ]](9bc699d0-0f63-5e1e-97d5-9ab5029f22d2.jpg)
Freefight on April 19th, 2017 at 20:47 UTC »
Happiness and relief. Brave men for sure.
entropydecreaser on April 19th, 2017 at 21:41 UTC »
There were three crew members of Apollo 8 (Borman, Lovell, Anders). The two women here are Valerie Anders and Susan Borman. Lovell was also married, but I'm unsure why his wife is not in this picture.
dineshkandula on April 19th, 2017 at 22:23 UTC »
Apollo 8 took three days to travel to the Moon. It orbited ten times over the course of 20 hours, during which the crew made a Christmas Eve television broadcast where they read the first 10 verses from the Book of Genesis. At the time, the broadcast was the most watched TV program ever. source : Wikipedia