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'It was the only colourful thing in the Universe'
In December 1968 Apollo 8 went into orbit around the Moon, but the astronauts on board were more impressed by the sight of the Earth rising in the distance, than by their close-up view of the lunar surface. Colonel Frank Borman, Commander of Apollo 8, remembers the flight.
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