Saturn V | Apollo 8
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Instantaneous launch window.
Launch Window
Dec. 21, 1968, 12:51 p.m. - Dec. 21, 1968, 12:51 p.m.
Instantaneous launch window.
Dec. 21, 1968, 12:51 p.m. - Dec. 21, 1968, 12:51 p.m.
First crewed space mission to orbit the Moon Apollo 8 was the first crewed spacecraft to leave low Earth orbit and the first to reach the Moon, orbit it, and return.[1][2][3] Its three-astronaut crew — Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders — were the first humans to fly to …
Apollo 8 was the first flight of the mighty Saturn V launch vehicle key to human exploration of the moon. The three-astronaut crew — Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot James Lovell, and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders. This Mission was the first manned spacecraft to orbit the moon.
The Saturn V was a human-rated expendable rocket used by NASA between 1967 and 1973. Most notably, the Saturn V took the Apollo program to the Moon. It still remains the world's tallest, heaviest, and most powerful rocket ever brought to operational status and is the only launch vehicle to take humans beyond LEO.
CSM-103 was an Apollo Command & Service Module used in the Apollo 8 mission.
Apollo Command/Service Module Details
Date of
Birth: March 14, 1928
Date of Death:
Nov. 7, 2023
Date of
Birth: March 25, 1928
Age: 96
Date of
Birth: Oct. 17, 1933
Date of Death:
June 7, 2024
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research. NASA have many launch facilities but most are inactive. The most commonly used pad will be LC-39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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