One of the first messages between spacecraft consisted of a hand drawn sign posted in the window of Gemini 6, piloted by Naval ... been assigned to the Apollo 8 backup crew. But when Mike Collins ...

"We got millions of telegrams after we landed, but the one I remember most was, 'Congratulations to the crew of Apollo 8. You saved 1968.' We didn't save it [ourselves] — but a lot of the people ...