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Apollo 8 in Photographs: The Apollo Photo Archive - (9780764370847)
The Apollo Photo Archive series comprises the most comprehensive pictorial record of America's moon-landing program ever published.
The series continues with the Apollo 8 launch in December 1968. Frank Borman Jim Lovell and Bill Anders achieved several historic firsts on this flight. Apollo 8 was the first manned flight to escape Earth's gravity and the first to orbit another celestial body (the moon). Launched by the Saturn V rocket the crew of Apollo 8 reached 24593 mph setting both manned speed and distance-from-Earth records.
The Apollo Photo Archive features images of spacecraft and rocket assembly crew selection and training preflight activities mission countdown launch the flight itself splashdown and subsequent crew appearances and related activities. This particular volume includes more than 800 images.
Features
- 368 pages
- Over 820 photos and illustrations
- Hardcover
- Book dimensions are 8.5 x 11
The Apollo Photo Archive series comprises the most comprehensive pictorial record of America's moon-landing program ever published.
The series continues with the Apollo 8 launch in December 1968. Frank Borman Jim Lovell and Bill Anders achieved several historic firsts on this flight. Apollo 8 was the first manned flight to escape Earth's gravity and the first to orbit another celestial body (the moon). Launched by the Saturn V rocket the crew of Apollo 8 reached 24593 mph setting both manned speed and distance-from-Earth records.
The Apollo Photo Archive features images of spacecraft and rocket assembly crew selection and training preflight activities mission countdown launch the flight itself splashdown and subsequent crew appearances and related activities. This particular volume includes more than 800 images.
