Christmas in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with a high of 36. Sunrise is 7:24 and sunset is 4:26, for 9 hours, 2 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 26.8 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1968, Apollo 8 performs the first successful Trans-Earth injection (TEI) maneuver, sending the crew and spacecraft on a trajectory back to Earth from Lunar orbit.