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NASA ID: MSFC-6761892	Mission: Apollo 8	Taken/released on:

Saturn V S-IC Stage for Apollo 8 in the VAB

The S-IC stage being erected for the final assembly of the Saturn V launch vehicle for the Apollo 8 mission (AS-503), is photographed in the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) high bay at the Kennedy Space Center. The Apollo 8 mission was the first Saturn V manned mission with astronauts Frank Borman, James A. Lovell, and William Anders. They escaped Earth’s gravity and traveled to lunar vicinity. The launch of Apollo 8 occurred on December 21, 1968. (Source: MSFC)

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Notes on this image: Photo taken in December 1967.

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