206 a
NASA / Unidentified Photographer

The official emblem of the Apollo 8 lunar orbit mission

December 1968

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA MSC caption and “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso, numbered “NASA S-68-51093” (NASA MSC) in red in top margin

206 b
NASA / Unidentified Photographer

Night view of the first rocket to send humans to another world

Apollo 8, December 1968

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA KSC caption and “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso

206 c
NASA / Unidentified Photographer

Close-up of the spacecraft at Pad 39A before the launch of the first manned mission to another world

Apollo 8, December 17, 1968

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA MSC caption and “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso, numbered “NASA S-68-55415” in red in top margin
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

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206 b
The Apollo 8 (Spacecraft 103/Saturn 503) space vehicle stands on Pad 39A at Cape Kennedy.

“The Saturn V was an enormous machine. And the size of the engines?! [...] I think I felt that more going up the morning of the launch. Because it was so quiet, nobody around it. [...] I don’t want to say awe, a combination of admiration_yeah, maybe awe. Wonderment,” said Frank Borman (Chaikin, Voices, p. 20).

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The Apollo spacecraft 103 Command and Service Modules, with its launch escape system above and the Saturn Lunar Module Adapter (SLA) below, are seen mated on top of the gigantic Saturn 503 launch vehicle at Pad 39A. The Mobile Service Structure (MSS) is being pulled back from the spacecraft during a test a few days before the launch of the first manned mission to the Moon.