8 hours agoThe first astronaut ship to emerge from earth's orbit
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(6 years ago)Apollo 8 on December 21, 1968, is launched by the U.S. Space Center Kennedy becoming the first astronaut ship to emerge from earth's orbit, enter the orbit of the moon and safely return to land. Three astronaut crews made up of Frank Borman, James. [...]
The crew of three astronauts made up of Frank Borman, James Lovell, William Anders became the first people to view the earth from above as an entire planet, and the first to look directly at the dark side of the moon.
It took him three days to get to the moon orbit. On Christmas Eve, astronauts carried out a television broadcast from ship into orbit, reading the first 10 lines from Genesis Book for viewers on earth.
The successful Apollo 8 mission opened the way for Apollo 11 mission to meet President John Kennedy's goal of landing a man on the moon before the end of 1960s. Apollo 8 returned to earth on December 27, 1968, when the capsule of 3 astronauts crashed into the northern Pacific Ocean.
