Tech ‘No lifeboat’: Before Houston had ‘a problem,’ these Apollo 8 astronauts were first to see far side of the moon December 21, 2018Ledyard King, USA TODAYComments Off on ‘No lifeboat’: Before Houston had ‘a problem,’ these Apollo 8 astronauts were first to see far side of the moon Fifty years after they launched from Kennedy Space Center, Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman and Jim Lovell recall 1968 flight that lifted a nation.