Provider: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Mission
Type: Human Exploration
Orbit: Low Earth Orbit
Pad: Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Mission Description
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.
