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There were three who were the first; Frank Bormann, Jim Lovell (later to be the Commander of the Apollo 13 mission), and Bill Anders on-board Apollo 8 on December 24 1968.

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John Glenn did not go to the moon, but he was the first American to orbit the earth.


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