Apollo 8 which they made a Christmas Eve television broadcast in which they read the first ten verses from the Book of Genesis. At the time, the broadcast was the most watched TV program ever. Apollo 8's successful mission paved the way for Apollo 11 to fulfill U.S. President John F. Kennedy's goal of landing a man on the Moon before the end of the 1960s. The Apollo 8 astronauts returned to Earth on December 27, 1968, when their spacecraft splashed down in the Northern Pacific Ocean. The crew members were named "Time" magazine's "Men of the Year" for 1968 upon their
Napalm and Silly Putty hand, I always wonder how many unused frequent-flyer miles they had." The hardcover edition of "Napalm and Silly Putty" was on "New York Times" Best Seller list for 20 straight weeks. The following year, the paperback edition was published. Both editions were published by Hyperion Books. As of April 2002, the hardcover edition had sold over 375,000 total copies. The audiobook was released abridged in two parts: "Napalm and Silly Putty" in May 2001 and "More Napalm and Silly Putty" in 2002. The audiobook received a Grammy Award, Carlin's fourth, in February 2002. The audiobook edition was published by HighBridge