apollo_8 | operator | nasa <sep> apollo 8 (december 21–27, 1968) was the first crewed spacecraft to leave low earth orbit and the first human spaceflight to reach the moon the crew orbited the moon ten times without landing, and then departed safely back to earth these three astronauts—frank borman, james lovell, and william anders—were the first humans to witness and photograph the far side of the moon and an earthrise apollo 8 launched on december 21, 1968, and was the second crewed spaceflight mission flown in the united states apollo space program after apollo 7, which stayed in earth orbit apollo 8 was the third flight and the first crewed launch of the saturn v rocket, and was the first human spaceflight from the kennedy space center, located adjacent to cape kennedy air force station in florida 
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