Author: Maria Temming / Source: Science News

Apollo 8: Options on the way
Just two months after the end of the successful first manned Apollo flight … three astronauts are ready to fly this Saturday to within 70 miles of the lunar surface….
The Apollo 8 plan is for the astronauts to fly as many as 10 orbits around the moon before heading home. — Science News, December 21, 1968Apollo 8 launched on December…
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