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Apollo 8 Liftoff View

The Apollo 8 (Spacecraft 103/Saturn 503) space vehicle is launched from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center (KSC), at 7:51 a.m (EST), December 21, 1968. The crew of the Apollo 8 lunar orbit mission is astronauts Frank Borman, commander; James A. Lovell Jr., command module pilot; and William A. Anders, lunar module pilot. Image S68-56050 courtesy NASA/JSC.

(Edit: 12/21/2021 - photo orientation corrected - original upload was mirrored)

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