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Apollo 8 - 50th anniversary
January 6 , 2019
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- NASA’s 1st flight to moon, Apollo 8, marks 50th anniversary on December 21, 2018.
- It was the second manned spaceflight mission in the United States Apollo space program, was launched on December 21, 1968.
- It became the first manned spacecraft to leave low Earth orbit, reach the Moon, orbit it, and safely return.
- The 3-astronaut crew Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders became the first humans to travel beyond low Earth orbit, see Earth as a whole planet, and enter the gravity well of another celestial body.
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