A astronomy cast episode 478, Apollo 8.

Welcome to Astronomy Cast, a weekly facts based journey through the cosmos, where we help

you understand not only what we know, but how we know what we know.

I'm Fraser Cain, publisher of University Day with me is Dr. Pamela Gay, the director

of technology and citizen science, the astronomical, society, the Pacific, and the director

of Cosmo Quest 8, Pamela, how you doing?

I'm doing well.

How are you doing, Fraser?

Good, but we also have a special guest in an unusual first time discussion with Paul

Hinderant to talk about his new documentary about Apollo 8.

Paul, welcome to Astronomy Cast.

Thanks, Fraser.

Happy to be here.

So as I mentioned, we have not had a regular guest like this, so I'm going to apologize

in advance that we don't really know how the balance is going to be, how this is going

to work.

But let us now give us some feedback.

If you want to have extra guests here in Astronomy Cast from time to time, and we'll see

how this all works out.

So Paul, you are a guinea pig.

Welcome to our experiment.

On Christmas Day, 1968, Frank Bormann, James Lovell, and William Anders became the first

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