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Apollo 8 - NASA
4 May 2024 at 2:01am
On December 21, 1968, three NASA astronauts embarked on a journey that would take them ?Round the moon and back.?. The Apollo 8 mission proved the performance of the command and service module and was the first crewed launch of the Saturn V rocket.

Apollo 8: Mission Details - NASA
3 May 2024 at 11:17pm
NASA. Mission Highlights. Apollo 8 launched from Cape Kennedy on Dec. 21, 1968, placing astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell Jr. and William Anders into a 114 by 118 mile parking orbit at 32.6 degrees.

Apollo 8 - Wikipedia
2 May 2024 at 11:11pm
Apollo 8 (December 21?27, 1968) was the first crewed spacecraft to leave low Earth orbit and the first human spaceflight to reach the Moon. The crew orbited the Moon ten times without landing, and then departed safely back to Earth.

Apollo 8: Christmas at the Moon - NASA
3 May 2024 at 1:19am
Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the moon, entered lunar orbit on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, 1968. That evening, the astronauts held a live broadcast from lunar orbit, during which they showed pictures of the Earth and moon as seen from their spacecraft.

Apollo 8: Everything you need to know | Space
3 May 2024 at 5:01am
NASA's Apollo 8 mission, launched in 1968, represented a vital milestone in human space exploration: carrying the first crew to beyond low Earth orbit and toward the moon. The Apollo 8...

Apollo 8 | National Air and Space Museum
4 May 2024 at 6:33am
Apollo 8, which launched on December 21, 1968, was the first mission to take humans to the Moon and back. While the crew did not land on the Moon's surface, the flight was an important prelude to a lunar landing, testing the flight trajectory and operations getting there and back.

Apollo 8 | The Planetary Society
3 May 2024 at 6:09pm
Apollo 8. The first human visit to lunar orbit. With Apollo 8, humans broke free of Earth orbit for the first time. Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders became the first humans in space to lose sight of their home world and gaze upon the lunar farside.

The historic flight of Apollo 8 - Astronomy Magazine
1 May 2024 at 8:20pm
The historic flight of Apollo 8. As we celebrate the golden anniversary of humanity?s first trip to the Moon, command module pilot Jim Lovell recounts the epic voyage. By Richard Talcott |...

How Apollo 8 Delivered Christmas Eve Peace and Understanding to the ...
3 May 2024 at 11:31pm
How Apollo 8 Delivered Christmas Eve Peace and Understanding to the World. In a new book, Smithsonian curator Teasel Muir-Harmony examines the geopolitics during NASA?s space flight program

Apollo 8?s Earthrise: The Shot Seen Round the World
4 May 2024 at 9:18am
189. By Dennis Overbye. Dec. 21, 2018. This is where we live. In space. On a marble fortified against bottomless blackness by a shell of air and color, fragile and miraculous as a soap bubble. In...



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