Today marks 54 years since Apollo 8 lifted off with Frank Borman, Bill Anders and Jim Lovell onboard. The first humans to travel to the moon! They also are the sole surviving intact mission crew of Apollo, Lovell and Borman also hold the honor of being the sole surviving Gemini crew still living, as they spent two weeks in Gemini 7 in 1965.
Apollo 8 is often overshadowed by Apollo 11, but we really won the space race with Apollo 8 as Russian attempts to man the moon all but stopped after Apollo 8