Apollo 8, NASA's first crewed Saturn V flight and first human mission to leave low Earth orbit and circle the Moon, with Borman, Lovell, and Anders completing 10 lunar orbits and photographing Earthrise before returning on 27 December 1968.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 30 T
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 13 Saturn V flights
- Date and time
- 21 December 1968, 12:51 UTC
- Rocket
- Saturn V
- Builder
- Boeing / North American / Douglas
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 1968-118
- Launches in 1968
- 127th of 128
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Object pages on Space Atlas: Apollo 8
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