# 41 Men of the Year : Astronauts Anders,Borman and Lowell.


 1-TIME chose the three Apollo 8 astronauts, who had just completed man's first lunar flight, a 590,000-mile voyage to the moon and back. Colonel Frank Borman, a fighter jet pilot and his crew...read more...




  http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2019712_2019703_2019664,00.html



2-Apollo 8 was the first manned orbit of Moon vehicles. It took place in the waning days of 1968 and represented the a major milestone on the way to the eventual Apollo 11 Moon landing !



  http://www.brighthub.com/science/space/articles/63829.aspx#0_undefined,