LAUNCH CENTER
Success
Sat Dec 21 1968
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Apollo 8
Launch Successful
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RECOVERY OVERVIEW
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Rocket Details
Name:
Saturn VDescription:
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. At the time and decades following its operational life, it was 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.
MISSION OVERVIEW
- Type: Human Exploration
- 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.
COMPLEX OVERVIEW
Location
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Pad
Launch Complex 39A