Apollo 8 pilot who was among the first people to travel from Earth to the Moon. He was an electrical engineer and a nuclear engineer. In 1968, he circled the Moon ten times. 

Before Fame

He was selected to join the Apollo 8 crew after one of the original astronauts had to drop out due to sickness. 

Trivia

On Christmas Eve, 1968, he read a passage to his crew from the Book of Genesis while orbiting around the Moon. 

Family Life

He married Valerie Hoard in 1955, and together they had four sons and two daughters. 

Associated With

He and Edgar D. Mitchell were two of 24 people to reach the moon in the 50 years since the first landing. 

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