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Close ✕Apollo 8
The first crewed spacecraft to leave Earth orbit, reach the Moon and return.
No recorded place · 1968-12-21 – 1968-12-27
Lunar mission
Operated byNASA · United States
ProgrammeApollo
ClassCrewed orbit · crewed
Outcomesuccess
Launched1968-12-21
Arrived1968-12-24
PositionThis mission did not reach the surface. It has no position because it never had one.
Connections
- launched from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A — Apollo 8 lifted off from Launch Complex 39A on 21 December 1968.
- first crewed flight of Saturn V — Apollo 8 was the first time the Saturn V carried a crew, a decision taken with only two uncrewed flights of the vehicle behind it.
Mission history61 missions · 1959 → 2026 · 2 planned
1145 objects · 280 located (1 withheld pending verification) · 865 unlocated · No relief basemap · marks drawn only from sourced coordinates