flown missionSuccess
Saturn V | Apollo 8
National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationLaunch Complex 39A — Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
mission
- Name
- Apollo 8
- Type
- Human Exploration
- Target orbit
- Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
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.
schedule
- NET (no earlier than)
- Window opens
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vehicle & provider
- Rocket
- Saturn V
- Family
- Saturn
- Variant
- V
- Provider
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Type
- Government
- Country
- USA
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launch site
- Pad
- Launch Complex 39A
- Location
- Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Country
- USA
- Timezone
- America/New_York
- Coordinates
- 28.6082, -80.6043