That Apollo 8 flight, I think was the most important flight of this program. ‘It was the first time men had left the confines of the earth, the first time that they were captured by another body and this was the first real exploration into space,’ said Jim Lovel. The Apollo 8 Mission was launched at Cape Kennedy on December 21, 1968. The astronauts that were launched into space were Frank Borman, Jim Lovel, and Bill Anders. Can you believe that this was the second flight in The Apollo program? This was the first spaceship that launched men into space. Compared to the other Apollo Missions this was the best. This Apollo Mission was made for a lot of purposes. Lastly it had a lot of impacts for the world.
The Apollo 8 Mission became the first manned vehicle to go through the atmosphere and go to another place that we have not explored yet. The Apollo 8 mission was meant to go faster. Also for it to be the first spaceship to carry men to see the moon but it would not be bringing them to the surface. The Apollo 8 Mission is better than all other missions for the start of its flight path. It did not have any glitches. The Apollo 8 helped other Apollo Missions including when Apollo 11 landed on the moon. Apollo 11 was launched on the Saturn V. The Apollo 8 Mission was the first to launch men from NASA’s new moon port.
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William Anders and Frank Borman took pictures of Earthrise and they became people that were very successful. They had to change some parts on the spaceship and they succeed. People were cheering for the Apollo 8 astronauts because they orbited the earth and they provided the uplift perfectly. Robert Poole wrote a book called How Man First Saw the Earth. Earthrise is the time when peoples understanding of the Space Age changed. The Apollo 8 Mission allowed us to go on other Apollo Missions; for example when one of the Apollo Missions landed on the