Human Spaceflight
APOLLO 8
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Apollo 8 was the first crewed spacecraft to leave Earth's gravitational sphere of influence, and the first human spaceflight to reach the Moon. The crew orbited the Moon ten times without landing and then returned to Earth. The three astronauts—Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and William Anders—were the first humans to see and photograph the far side of the Moon and an Earthrise.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 21, 1968 at 12:51 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Saturn V →
- Operator
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Mission
- Apollo 8
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- HEO
- Apoapsis
- 544,356 km
- Periapsis
- 215 km
- Inclination
- 30.71°
- Orbital period
- 24399.41 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 15,500.5 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1968-118A
- NORAD catalog №
- 3626
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- December 27, 1968
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- December 27, 1968
- Time in service
- 6 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed