Apollo 8 liftoff
NASA, 1968
The first crew to leave Earth orbit. The fire is taller than the tower. Christmas is in three days, and they are going somewhere with no night and day.
About this work
Apollo 8 lifted off from Kennedy Space Center at 7:51 a.m. EST on December 21, 1968. It was the first crewed launch of the Saturn V rocket, only its third flight, and the first human spaceflight from Kennedy Space Center. The crew were Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders. Their spacecraft became the first crewed craft to leave Earth's gravitational sphere of influence and the first human spaceflight to reach the Moon. Apollo 8 had originally been planned as an Earth-orbit test of the command and lunar modules in early 1969, but in August 1968 the mission was changed to a much bolder flight to lunar orbit with the command module alone. The Saturn V's three stages put the craft into Earth orbit, and the third stage then fired again to send it toward the Moon. The crew orbited the Moon ten times without landing, became the first people to see and photograph the far side of the Moon and an Earthrise, and came home on December 27.
Sources: Wikimedia Commons · Wikipedia: Apollo 8
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- 36 × 54 in
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