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The first people to go to the moon were astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders, they went to the moon in the Apollo8 spacecraft. It was the first test of the Saturn 5 rocket, the test was to see if it could reach the moon. They circled the moon three times during Christmas 1968.

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