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Apollo 8
Saturn V · Human Exploration
1968Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center
Mission
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.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- NASA
- Rocket
- Saturn V
- Orbit
- LEO
- Pad
- Launch Complex 39A
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2