 The Apollo 8 crew , now living in the crew quarters at Kennedy Space Center , received a visit from Charles Lindbergh and his wife , Anne Morrow Lindbergh , the night before the launch . They talked about how , before his 1927 flight , Lindbergh had used a piece of string to measure the distance from New York City to Paris on a globe and from that calculated the fuel needed for the flight . The total was a tenth of the amount that the Saturn V would burn every second . The next day , the Lindberghs watched the launch of Apollo 8 from a nearby dune . 
