27 December 1968: The unnamed Command Module splashed down in the Pacific Ocean & was recovered by crewmen from the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Yorktown; Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, & Bill Anders spoke with incumbent U.S. president Lyndon Johnson by telephone, were named Time magazine's Men of the Year, & led the Pledge of Allegiance before Super Bowl III in January 1969.
Bonus! Moonshot Songs o' the Day: Apollo 8
Leon Bridges, "Coming Home" from Coming Home (Mike Papa Whiskey)
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National Aeronautics & Space Administration, "Apollo 8 Excerpt 14" from The Apollo Missions (Mike Papa Whiskey)
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