Apollo 8: Go for TLI (1969)

Duration: 22:00

Year Published: 19681969

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Launched December 21, 1968, the Apollo 8 mission took humans closer to the Moon than ever before. Apollo 8 boasts a number of firsts and records: the farthest from Earth humans had flown, the first time we orbited the Moon, the fastest speed (25,000 mph on reentry) humans had flown, and the closest, live television pictures of the Moon’s surface. This government film takes us through all of the details of the Apollo 8 mission from liftoff to splashdown, featuring the voices of not only mission control in Houston but also the astronauts as they explain what they are doing, what they are seeing, and how they feel about their journey.