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This is a photograph taken from the Apollo 8 spacecraft looking back at the Saturn V third (S-IVB) stage from which the spacecraft had just separated following trans-lunar injection. Attached to the S-IVB is the Lunar Module Test Article (LTA) which simulated the mass of a Lunar Module (LM) on the Apollo 8 lunar orbit mission. The 29-feet panels of the Spacecraft LM Adapter which enclosed the LTA during launch have already been jettisoned and are out of view. Sunlight reflected from small particles shows the « firefly » phenomenon which was reported by astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. during the first Earth-orbital flight, Mercury-Atlas 6 (MA-6) of the Mercury Program.
Photo Number: AS08-16-2583
Date: December 21, 1968
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Apollo 8, Saturn V
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Posted by NASA on The Commons The crew of Apollo 13 photographed the Moon from their Lunar Module « life boat » as they passed by it. The shut-down Command Module is visible out the overhead rendezvous window. Crater Chaplygin is the major feature shown on the lunar surface. Image Number: AS13-62-8909 Date: April 14, 1970 Tags:…
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