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Saturn V | Apollo 8
National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationLaunch Successful

Apollo 8

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Mission status
Launch Successful

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LAUNCH SITEKennedy Space Center, FL, USA

Mission

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.

Launch vehicle
Saturn V
Mission type
Human Exploration
Destination orbit
Low Earth Orbit
Spacecraft
Apollo CSM-103
Destination
Moon Orbit
Launch pad
Launch Complex 39A
Provider
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Programs
Apollo

The vehicle

Published configuration and flight history.

Saturn V
Launch vehicle

Saturn V

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. It still remains 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.

Height
110.6 m
Diameter
10.1 m
Stages
3
Recorded launches
13
First flight
1967-11-09

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Launch site & orbit

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

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