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View of the Saturn V third stage from which the Apollo 8 has separated
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View of the Saturn V third stage from which the Apollo 8 has separated

AS08-16-2584 (21 Dec. 1968) --- 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.

Date
1968-12-21
Collection
JSC
Archive
NASA Image and Video Library
Type
photograph

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"View of the Saturn V third stage from which the Apollo 8 has separated" (1968-12-21). NASA/JSC. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/as08-16-2584

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