Apollo 8 crewed lunar-orbit spacecraft family
NASA Apollo 8 spacecraft carried three astronauts on the first crewed mission to lunar orbit in December 1968 and safely returned to Earth after the lunar-orbit mission.
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Identity
- Aliases
- Apollo 8Apollo 8 CSMApollo 8 command and service moduleApollo 8 spacecraft
- Family Name
- Apollo 8
- Full Name
- Apollo 8 crewed lunar-orbit spacecraft family
- Roles
- crewed_spacecraftorbiterresearch
- Status
- retired
- Type
- spacecraft
Details
- Description
- NASA Apollo 8 spacecraft carried three astronauts on the first crewed mission to lunar orbit in December 1968 and safely returned to Earth after the lunar-orbit mission.
- First Flight Year
- 1,968
- Last Flight Year
- 1,968
- Operator
- Propulsion Configurations
- Entries
- Count
- 1
- Placement
- spacecraft
- Propulsion System
- Role
- main
- Stage
- service-module
- Variant Notes
- The Apollo 8 mission documentation records four service-propulsion maneuvers, including lunar-orbit insertion; the existing Aerojet AJ10-137 integrated-system identity is reused without changing its other Apollo CSM installations.
- Name
- Apollo 8 CSM AJ10-137 service propulsion installation
- Notes
- One exact AJ10-137 Service Propulsion System on the Apollo 8 command-and-service spacecraft family. This packet models the main service-module propulsion system only; Apollo 8 reaction-control, Saturn launch-vehicle, and lunar-module propulsion remain outside this bounded configuration.
Links
- Official Url
- https://www.nasa.gov/mission/apollo-8/
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- Creation Time
- August 13, 2026 at 08:54:42 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 25, 2026 at 18:12:15 UTC