With a trip around the Moon completed, it was time for NASA to start seriously planning to land astronauts there.
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On his back, partially visible, are a Portable Life Support System (PLSS) and an Oxygen Purge System (OPS). Schweickart, wearing an Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU), is standing in "golden slippers" on the Lunar Module porch. This view was taken form the Command Module "Gumdrop". The Command/Service Module and the Lunar Module 3 "Spider" are docked. Schweickart, lunar module pilot, operates a 70mm Hasselblad camera during his extravehicular activity on the fourth day of the Apollo 9 earth-orbital mission. 27.Īpollo 8 Feature Stories Apollo 8 Mission OverviewĪstronaut Russell L. On Christmas Eve, 1968, the crew gave a memorable reading from the Book of Genesis, and while in orbit Anders took the iconic "Earthrise" photo.Ĭrew: Frank Borman, commander William A. Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders were the first crew to fly atop the powerful Saturn V booster, ultimately spending 20 hours orbiting the Moon.
NASA ultimately changed from an unpiloted, Earth-orbiting mission to a crewed flight around the Moon. The success of earlier flights, problems in the development of the lunar module and concerns that the Soviet Union might be ready to launch astronauts around the Moon led NASA to change the flight plan for the next Saturn V mission. "Earthrise" Taken aboard Apollo 8 by Bill Anders, this iconic picture shows Earth peeking out from beyond the lunar surface as the first crewed spacecraft circumnavigated the Moon.
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