Apollo 8 Lunar Mission
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Anders, William Alison, 1933-
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William A. Anders (b. October 17, 1933, Hong Kong) is a former United States Air Force officer, electrical engineer, nuclear engineer, NASA astronaut, and businessman. Anders, along with Apollo 8 crewmates Frank Borman and Jim Lovell, is one of the first three persons to have left Earth orbit and traveled to the Moon. He was also the U.S. Ambassador to Norway from 1976 to 1977 under then President Gerald Ford's administration....
Apollo 8 (Spacecraft)
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Apollo 8 was the second manned mission of the Apollo space program, in which Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot James Lovell, and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders became the first humans to leave Earth orbit and to orbit around the Moon. It was also the first manned launch of the Saturn V rocket. NASA prepared for the mission in only four months. The hardware involved had only been used a few times¿the Saturn V had launched only twice before, and the Apollo spacecraft had only just...
Eisele, Donn Fulton, 1930-1987
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Donn F. Eisele (b. June 23, 1930, Columbus, OH–d. December 2, 1987, Tokyo, Japan) was a United States Air Force officer, test pilot, and a NASA astronaut. He occupied the Command Module Pilot seat during the flight of Apollo 7 in 1968. After retiring from both NASA and the Air Force, he became the Peace Corps country director for Thailand....
Cunningham, Walter, 1932-
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Walter Cunningham (b. March 16, 1932, Creston, IA) is a retired American astronaut. In 1968, he was a Lunar Module Pilot on the Apollo 7 mission. He is also a fighter pilot, physicist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, author, and radio show host....
Eisele, Donn Fulton, 1930-1987
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Donn F. Eisele (b. June 23, 1930, Columbus, OH–d. December 2, 1987, Tokyo, Japan) was a United States Air Force officer, test pilot, and a NASA astronaut. He occupied the Command Module Pilot seat during the flight of Apollo 7 in 1968. After retiring from both NASA and the Air Force, he became the Peace Corps country director for Thailand....
Schirra, Wally, 1923-2007
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Wally Schirra (b. Walter Marty Schirra Jr., March 12, 1923, Hackensack, New Jersey-d. May 3, 2007, San Diego, California), astronaut. He was one of the seven Mercury Astronauts named by NASA in April 1959. On October 3, 1962; he piloted the six orbit Sigma 7 Mercury flight; a flight which lasted 9 hours, 15 minutes. Schirra next served as backup command pilot for the Gemini III Mission and on December 15-16, occupied the Command Pilot seat on the history-making Gemini 6 flight. The highlight ...
