Frank Borman - Command Module
Pilot James Lovell
Lunar Module Pilot William Anders
They became the first humans to travel beyond low Earth orbit, the first to see Earth as a whole planet, and then the first to directly see the far side of the Moon.
Apollo 8 was the first manned mission to orbit the moon. The crew members were Frank Borman, James A. Lovell, Jr., William A. Anders
The Apollo missions had different crew sizes, with the majority of missions having a crew of three astronauts. However, the first two Apollo missions (Apollo 7 and Apollo 9) were crewed by three astronauts, while Apollo 8 and Apollo 10 had crews of four. Apollo 11, which famously landed on the moon, had a crew of three.
21 December 1968 Crew: Anders, Borman, Lovell. Backup Crew: Aldrin, Armstrong, Haise.
Very simple - it was the next mission in the series after Apollo 7. One of the crew members - James Lovell - drew a sketch from which the mission patch was made. It showed the path of the spacecraft, going off to the Moon and returning to Earth describing a figure of 8. Lovell knew that the actual flight path wouldn't be an exact figure of 8, but it was descriptive of the aim of the mission - to fly to the Moon and return - and was a very visual way of including the mission number.
Apollo 1 astronaut names: Unmanned Apollo 2 astronaut names: Unmanned Apollo 3 astronaut names: Virgil I. Grissom, Edward White, Roger B. Chaffee Apollo 4 astronaut names: Unmanned Apollo 5 astronaut names: Unmanned Apollo 6 astronaut names: Unmanned Apollo 7 astronaut names: Walter Schirra, Don Eisele, Walter Cunigham Apollo 8 astronaut names: Frank Borman, Jm Lovell, William Anders Apollo 9 astronaut names: James McDivitt, David Scott, Russel Schweickart Apollo 10 astronaut names: Tomas Stafford, John Young, Eugene Cernan Apollo 11 astronaut names: Neil Armstrong, Micheal Collins, "Buzz" Aldrin Apollo 12 astronaut names: Charles Conrad, Richard Gordan, Alan Bean Apollo 13 astronaut names: Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, Fred Haise Apollo 14 astronaut names: Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, Edgar Mitchell Apollo 15 astronaut names: David Scott, Alfred Worden, James Irwin Apollo 16 astronaut names: John Young, Ken Mattingly, Charles Duke Apollo 17 astronaut names: Eugen Cernan, Robert Evans, Harrison Schmitt
Apollo 8 was the first manned mission to orbit the moon. The crew members were Frank Borman, James A. Lovell, Jr., William A. Anders
Apollo 8
The Apollo missions had different crew sizes, with the majority of missions having a crew of three astronauts. However, the first two Apollo missions (Apollo 7 and Apollo 9) were crewed by three astronauts, while Apollo 8 and Apollo 10 had crews of four. Apollo 11, which famously landed on the moon, had a crew of three.
The crew were as follows. The Commander was Frank Borman, the Command Module Pilot was James Lovell, and the Lunar Module Pilot was William Anders.
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21 December 1968 Crew: Anders, Borman, Lovell. Backup Crew: Aldrin, Armstrong, Haise.
Very simple - it was the next mission in the series after Apollo 7. One of the crew members - James Lovell - drew a sketch from which the mission patch was made. It showed the path of the spacecraft, going off to the Moon and returning to Earth describing a figure of 8. Lovell knew that the actual flight path wouldn't be an exact figure of 8, but it was descriptive of the aim of the mission - to fly to the Moon and return - and was a very visual way of including the mission number.
Because he was the backup commander of Apollo 8. The crew rotation worked in the way that the backup crew would become the prime crew of 3 missions later. 11-8=3.
Apollo 1 astronaut names: Unmanned Apollo 2 astronaut names: Unmanned Apollo 3 astronaut names: Virgil I. Grissom, Edward White, Roger B. Chaffee Apollo 4 astronaut names: Unmanned Apollo 5 astronaut names: Unmanned Apollo 6 astronaut names: Unmanned Apollo 7 astronaut names: Walter Schirra, Don Eisele, Walter Cunigham Apollo 8 astronaut names: Frank Borman, Jm Lovell, William Anders Apollo 9 astronaut names: James McDivitt, David Scott, Russel Schweickart Apollo 10 astronaut names: Tomas Stafford, John Young, Eugene Cernan Apollo 11 astronaut names: Neil Armstrong, Micheal Collins, "Buzz" Aldrin Apollo 12 astronaut names: Charles Conrad, Richard Gordan, Alan Bean Apollo 13 astronaut names: Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, Fred Haise Apollo 14 astronaut names: Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, Edgar Mitchell Apollo 15 astronaut names: David Scott, Alfred Worden, James Irwin Apollo 16 astronaut names: John Young, Ken Mattingly, Charles Duke Apollo 17 astronaut names: Eugen Cernan, Robert Evans, Harrison Schmitt
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Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders.
Neil Armstrong's first spaceflight was Gemini 8 on March 16, 1966.during that mission, he performed the first docking with another spacecraft. A fwe hours after docking, the 2 spacecrafts began "tumbling end over end" at the rate of about 1 revolution per second. They were spinning to fast that Armstrong and he copilot, Dave Scott, began to develop tunnel vision. The two astronautswere on the verge of blacking outwhenArmstrong was finally able to regain control of the spacecraft and stop the spin. Armstrong's quick thinking saved the life of the 2 astronauts. They would have died had they blacked out. Armstrong's heroicactionsduring Gemini 8 put him in line to be one of the first men to go to the moon. His nextassignment was as the thebackup to Gemini 11 commander, Pete Conrad, who flew on Apollo 12. Conradlanded on the moon after Armstrong. The next stroke of fate came in 1967 when the first Lunar Module was delayed. the Apollo 8 crew of Jim McDivitt, Rusty Schweickart and Dave Scott was training to fly the first Lunar Module in earth orbit, but production delays meant that the LM would not be ready to fly until early 1969. To keep on Kennedy's end of the decadegoal, NASA decided to movethe high earth orbital Apollo9 mission aheadof Apollo 8. The original Apollo 9 mission did not use a Lunar Module. The 2 missions switched names and the crews stayed with the mission they were trained for. That means that the original Apollo 8 crew, and backups, moved to Apollo 9, and the original Apollo 9 crew of Borman, Collins & Anders (along with backups) became the new Apollo 8 mission. Collins developed neck pain and needed surgery. He was replaced by Jim Lovell, moving Collins to Apollo 8 backup and on to Apollo 11 prime crew. Armstrong wasassignedto the original Apollo 9 backup crew. When that crew became the Apollo 8 crew,Armstrong went with them. It was NASA policythat a backup crew becomes prime 3 missions later. The Apollo 8 backup crew followed that policy, and became the Apollo 11 prime crew. Had the LM been on time then theoriginal Apollo 8 backup crew of Pete Conrad, CC Williams and Richard Gordon would have flown Apollo 11 instead of Armstrong's crew. That means that Conrad would have been the first man on the moon. Williams was killed in a plane crash while training for the Apollo 9 backup and was replaced by Alan Bean. When the Apollo program began, NASA did not know which mission would be the first to land.Their original plans had the 7th mission being the first one to land on the moon, but the Apollo 8/9 switch cut one mission and the success of the first 4 Apollo missions meant that Apollo 11 would be the first to attempt to land on the moon. Armstrong's selection as the first man on the moon was a combination of luck, skill and being at the right place at the right time.