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CONTROLLER: Two minutes ten seconds and counting. Oxidizer tanks in the second and third stages now have pressurized.

NARRATOR: No human has ever flown more than 800 miles from the earth. Apollo 8 will travel a quarter-million miles to circle the moon.

CONTROLLER: Twelve, eleven, ten, nine, we have admission sequence start. The engines are on. Four, three, two, one, zero, we have commit. We have lift-off.

GENE KRANZ: I was absolutely mesmerized by what was going on. I mean, all of a sudden you find out that, my god, the crew has left the earth's environment. OK, it's now on a way to another planet for the first time. It's like "Holy cow, this is something!"

NARRATOR: Tonight, 30 years later, NOVA returns "To the Moon."