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The visit will honor the 20th anniversary of continuous life on the ISS, a milestone achieved in November. New for this year, visitors will be able to see the ISS orbiting the planet in its precise real-time location by zooming out on the 3D Santa Tracker app.

Photo: Cesium. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to GPS World to receive more articles just like it. Your behavior appears to be a little unusual. The first crew, Expedition 1, arrived at the station in November Since then, rotating crews of astronauts and cosmonauts have kept the station continuously crewed for two decades.

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Tariq is the Editor-in-Chief of Space. He became Space. Before joining Space. Earlier plans called for Apollo 8 to be another test flight in Earth orbit. What it became as a result of contractor delays and some bold thinking was the most spectacular event yet in human spaceflight, complete with a Christmas Eve reading of Biblical passages during one of a half-dozen live TV broadcasts.

By the time the mission was history, six days and a half-million miles after lifting off, Americans could finally taste the possibility of President John F.

Though less remembered today than a similar flight seven months later, Apollo 8 offered a redemptive coda to a year marked by tragedy and strife.

Launched on Dec. Six telecasts were conducted during the six-day mission, and all were broadcast worldwide. The three astronauts, who orbited the moon 10 times over the course of 20 hours, returned to a hero's welcome and were honored as Time Magazine's "Men of the Year" for That year of turmoil — in Vietnam, eastern Europe, and the streets of the United States — ended with a journey where no one had gone before. The dicey mission was picture perfect. Showing only a portion of the Earth as it rose above the arc of a colorless moon, the image became the signature picture of both the Apollo program and the burgeoning environmental movement.

Everyone wanted to meet them, touch them, hear them. When conceived, Apollo 8 was to be a thorough test of the lunar module. However, problems with the fragile and finicky lander were turning into an engineering nightmare. A final version of the machine that would lower two astronauts to the surface would not be ready until Rather than use the launch for something that had mostly been done, why not leapfrog the planned sequence of flights and send the astronauts to the moon?

NASA needed confirmation that its overall concept had no unseen flaws and that the ground personnel were ready. Although every mission up to the moon landing was to some degree a test flight, the revised Apollo 8 was an order of magnitude greater than any that had been done to date. Although all the hardware had been tested successfully except for the Lunar Module its weight was replaced by a dummy stand-in , this would be the real deal.

When Borman told his wife Susan about the redesigned mission, she was frightened. The rushed training period was not normal for NASA. As a longtime veteran of the spaceflight family, she knew immediately this was not just another test mission.

Kraft asked a question of his own: Did she want a straight answer or simply words of encouragement? The truth, she replied. The fear was not unfounded, even for those who long ago accepted the risk involved. No human had ever left Earth orbit. The early morning launch on Dec.

All the modifications to the three rocket stages and the weeks of intensive testing had done the job. Moments later the S-IVB third stage fired up. The speed of the spacecraft increased fourfold during the five-minute burn.

It passed through the Van Allen radiation belts and was on its way to the moon.