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Apollo 8 Anniversary

Posted by Chris Radcliff in Calendar on November 1, 2008

Thu, Dec 11, 2008

6:00 pm to 10:00 pm

Join the San Diego Air & Space Museum as they celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Apollo 8 with a forum and gala. Special guests include: Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders.

Apollo 8 was the first mission to take humans to the Moon and back. An important prelude to actually landing on the Moon was testing the flight trajectory and operations for getting there and back. Apollo 8 did this and achieved many other firsts including the first manned mission launched on the Saturn V, first manned launch from NASA’s new Moonport, first pictures taken by humans of the Earth from deep space, and first live TV coverage of the lunar surface.

For ticket prices and more information, please visit www.sandiegoairandspace.org.

(photo courtesy Gerry Williams)

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