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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration today announced that the Apollo 8 mission would be prepared for an orbital flight around the Moon.
On November 12, [Tom] Paine, by then the new NASA administrator, announced to the world that Apollo 8's mission had changed, and that it would take Borman, Lovell, and Anders into orbit around the moon on Christmas Eve.