Apollo 8
Second crewed flight of the United States Apollo program
Also known as Apollo VIII
- Launched
- December 21, 1968
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- December 21, 1968
- Landed
- December 27, 1968
- Launch vehicle
- Mass
- 4,979 kg
- , 28,870 kg
- Start point
Overview
All data
52 statements · 21% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Crew members
- Frank Borman positions held: spacecraft commander
- Jim Lovell positions held: command module pilot
- Bill Anders positions held: lunar module pilot
- Runtime
- 529,242 s
- Location of landing
- Pacific Ocean coordinates: 8.1000°N, 165.0167°W
- Inclination
- 12 degree relative to: Moon
- Orbits completed
- 10 relative to: Moon
- Backup or reserve team or crew
- Fred Haise positions held: lunar module pilot
- Neil Armstrong positions held: spacecraft commander
- Buzz Aldrin positions held: command module pilot
- Call sign
- Apollo 8
- Orbital period
- 88.19 min
- Significant event
- rocket launch(December 21, 1968) refine date: 12:51 · location: Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A
- orbital activity(1968–1968) located on astronomical body: Moon · item operated: Apollo Command and Service Module
- splashdown(December 27, 1968) location: Pacific Ocean · coordinates: 8.1000°N, 165.0167°W
- lection(December 24, 1968) section: 1-10 · object of occurrence: Genesis 1, Genesis creation narrative
On other databases
17 identifiers linking Apollo 8 across the web's reference databases
- BabelNet ID03511404n
- BBC Things ID8d358c93-5833-450c-bcb1-d2ab8b2646b2
- BIBSYS ID1691037119939
- COSPAR ID1968-118A
- Freebase ID/m/0ht5
- GND ID4776869-1
- KBpedia IDApollo8
- Lex IDApollo_8
- Library of Congress Authorities IDno2004052875
- NL CR AUT IDhka20231201311
- NSSDCA ID1968-118A
- Reddit topic ID (obsolete)apollo_8
- SCN03626
- SNAC ARK IDw6vn7kmw
- VIAF cluster ID145769786
- Wolfram Language entity codeEntity["Satellite", "03626"]
- Yale LUX IDgroup/8b693196-2829-40e1-8551-8b9cbac08aaa