it took apollo 8 until october 9 to orbit the moon.
it took apollo 8 until october 9 to orbit the moon.
how long did it take apollo 8 to orbit the moon?
october 9
as the first crewed spacecraft to orbit more than one celestial body, apollo 8's profile had two different sets of orbital parameters, separated by a translunar injection maneuver. apollo lunar missions would begin with a nominal circular earth parking orbit. apollo 8 was launched into an initial orbit with an apogee of and a perigee of , with an inclination of 32.51° to the equator, and an orbital period of 88.19 minutes. propellant venting increased the apogee by over the 2 hours, 44 minutes, and 30 seconds spent in the parking orbit.
apollo 8
apollo 8's historic mission has been depicted and referred to in several forms, both documentary and fiction. the various television transmissions and 16 mm footage shot by the crew of apollo 8 were compiled and released by nasa in the 1969 documentary "debrief: apollo 8", hosted by burgess meredith. in addition, spacecraft films released, in 2003, a three-disc dvd set containing all of nasa's tv and 16 mm film footage related to the mission, including all tv transmissions from space, training and launch footage, and motion pictures taken in flight. other documentaries include "race to the moon" (2005) as part of season 18 of "american experience" and "in the shadow of the moon" (2007). parts of the mission are dramatized in the 1998 miniseries "from the earth to the moon" episode "1968". the s-ivb stage of apollo 8 was also portrayed as the location of an alien device in the 1970 "ufo" episode "conflict". apollo 8's lunar orbit insertion was chronicled with actual recordings in the song "the other side", on the album "the race for space", by the band public service broadcasting.
apollo 8