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Apollo 8 (24)
'Round the moon and back
Pad 39-A (3)
Saturn-V AS-503 (3)
High Bay 1
MLP 1
Firing Room 1
Demonstrate crew/space vehicle/mission support facilities during manned Saturn V/CSM mission.
Demonstrate translunar injection, CSM navigation, communications, and midcourse corrections. Assess CSM consumables and passive thermal control.
Demonstrate CSM performance in cislunar and lunar orbit environment. Demonstrate communications and
tracking at lunar distances. Return high-resolution photographs of proposed Apollo landing
sites and locations of scientific interest. All mission objectives were achieved.
December 21, 1968, 07:51:00 a.m. EST. Kennedy Space Center. Launch Complex 39-A.
Altitude: 190km x 180km
Inclination: xxx degrees
Orbits: 10 revolutions
Duration: 6 Days, 3 hours, 0 min, 42 seconds
Distance: miles
December 27, 1968; 10:52 am EST; Landing point 8deg 7.5min North and 165deg 1.2min
West. Miss distance was 2.5km; Splashdown time, December 27, 1968 at 10:52 a.m. EST;
MET: 147:00:42. Crew on board U.S.S Yorktown at 12:20 p.m. EST; Spacecraft aboard
ship at 01:20 p.m.
Apogee 190 kilometers;
Perigee 180 kilometers.
Translunar injection at 02:56:05.5 MET;
Maximum distance from earth 376,745 kilometers;
Lunar orbit insertion 69:08:20 MET;
Lunar
orbit 312km by 111km;
Trans-earth injection 89:19:17 MET.
In lunar orbit 20 hours, with 10 orbits. First manned lunar orbital mission. Support facilities
tested. Photographs taken of Earth and Moon. Live TV broadcasts.
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Crew
Frank
Borman Commander
William A. Anders
Lunar Module Pilot
James A. Lovell Jr.
Command Module Pilot
Backup Crew
Neil
Armstrong
Commander
Fred W. Haise, Jr.
Lunar Module Pilot
Edwin E. Aldrin Jr.
Command Module Pilot
Payload
CSM-103
Milestones
12/24/67
- S-II Stage ondock at KSC
12/27/67
- S-1C Stage ondock at KSC
12/30/67
- S-IVB ondock at KSC
01/04/68
- S-IU ondock at KSC
08/14/68
- Launch Vehicle at Pad
10/17/68
- Spacecraft at Pad
12/11/68
- Countdown Demonstration Test
12/21/68
- Launch
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