Apollo 8 lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on 21 December 1968. Main mission objectives included a coordinated performance of the crew, the command and service module and the support facilities. The mission also demonstrated trans-lunar injection - a propulsive manoeuvre used to set a spacecraft on a trajectory that will cause it to arrive at the Moon. The crew escaped Earth's gravity, travelled to the lunar vicinity, and orbited the Moon before returning to Earth on 27 December An optimised NASA image / Credit: NASA

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