WIKI: This reading was broadcast during the 9th orbit of the moon by Apollo 8 and it is estimated that a quarter of the people alive at the time saw it either live or delayed.The Apollo 8 broadcasts won an Emmy Award.
Apollo 8 was the first crewed spacecraft to leave low Earth orbit, and also the first human spaceflight to reach another astronomical object, namely the Moon, which the crew orbited without landing, and then departed safely back to Earth These three astronauts — Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders — were the first humans to witness and photograph an Earthrise, to photograph the whole Earth disk and to photograph the Moon from a spacecraft.