Apollo 8

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NASA Apollo program mission crewed spaceflight mission

Apollo 8 was the 1968 NASA mission that first carried humans into orbit around the Moon, marking a pivotal milestone in the space race and lunar exploration.

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All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Apollo 8 canonical 33
Apollo 8 mission 2
Apollo 8 mission insignia 1

Statements (51)

Predicate Object
instanceOf NASA Apollo program mission ⓘ
crewed spaceflight mission ⓘ
apoapsisAltitudeMoon approximately 312 kilometers ⓘ
backupCommander Neil A. Armstrong ⓘ
backupCommandModulePilot Buzz Aldrin ⓘ
surface form: Edwin E. Aldrin Jr.
backupLunarModulePilot Fred Haise ⓘ
surface form: Fred W. Haise Jr.
broadcast Christmas Eve 1968 television transmission from lunar orbit ⓘ
commander Frank Borman ⓘ
commandModuleName CSM-103 ⓘ
commandModulePilot Jim Lovell ⓘ
surface form: James A. Lovell Jr.
country United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States
crewMember Frank Borman ⓘ
Jim Lovell ⓘ
surface form: James A. Lovell Jr.

William Anders ⓘ
surface form: William A. Anders
crewSize 3 ⓘ
Earthrise photograph taken by William A. Anders ⓘ
famousEvent reading from the Book of Genesis during Christmas Eve broadcast ⓘ
firsts first crewed launch of the Saturn V rocket ⓘ
first crewed spacecraft to orbit the Moon ⓘ
first humans to travel beyond low Earth orbit ⓘ
followedBy Apollo 9 ⓘ
imageProduced Earthrise photograph ⓘ
landingDate 1968-12-27 ⓘ
landingSite Pacific Ocean ⓘ
launchComplex Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A ⓘ
surface form: Launch Complex 39A
launchDate 1968-12-21 ⓘ
launchSite Kennedy Space Center ⓘ
launchTimeUTC 12:51:00 ⓘ
launchVehicle Saturn V ⓘ
launchYear 1968 ⓘ
lunarModulePilot William Anders ⓘ
surface form: William A. Anders
lunarOrbitInsertionDate 1968-12-24 ⓘ
missionDuration 6 days 3 hours 0 minutes ⓘ
missionNumber 8 ⓘ
missionType lunar orbital mission ⓘ
objective to perform a crewed lunar orbital mission ⓘ
to photograph potential Apollo landing sites on the Moon ⓘ
to test navigation and communication in lunar orbit ⓘ
operator NASA ⓘ
orbitsOfMoon 10 ⓘ
periapsisAltitudeMoon approximately 111 kilometers ⓘ
precededBy Apollo 7 ⓘ
program Apollo program ⓘ
recoveryShip USS Yorktown (CV-10) ⓘ
significance first human mission to leave Earth orbit and reach the Moon ⓘ
major milestone in the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union ⓘ
spaceAgency NASA ⓘ
spacecraftName Apollo command and service module ⓘ
surface form: Apollo Command and Service Module 103
spacecraftType Apollo command and service module ⓘ
surface form: Apollo CSM
spaceRaceContext conducted during the Cold War space race ⓘ
status successful ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Apollo 8
Description of subject: Apollo 8 was the 1968 NASA mission that first carried humans into orbit around the Moon, marking a pivotal milestone in the space race and lunar exploration.

Referenced by (37)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Apollo program → notableMission → Apollo 8 ⓘ
Apollo program → firstMannedLunarOrbitMission → Apollo 8 ⓘ
Saturn V → notableMission → Apollo 8 ⓘ
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A → notableLaunch → Apollo 8 ⓘ
Apollo command and service module → usedInMission → Apollo 8 ⓘ
Apollo 7 → followedBy → Apollo 8 ⓘ
From the Earth to the Moon → depicts → Apollo 8 ⓘ
Frank Borman → spaceMission → Apollo 8 ⓘ
Frank Borman → wasCommanderOf → Apollo 8 ⓘ
Jeffrey Kluger → notableWork → Apollo 8 ⓘ
this entity surface form: Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon
Jim Lovell → participantIn → Apollo 8 ⓘ
Fred Haise → backupCrewAssignment → Apollo 8 ⓘ
S-IC → usedOnMission → Apollo 8 ⓘ
F-1 → firstCrewedMissionUse → Apollo 8 ⓘ
F-1 → usedOnMission → Apollo 8 ⓘ
S-IVB → notableMission → Apollo 8 ⓘ
J-2 → usedDuringMission → Apollo 8 ⓘ
William Anders → spaceMission → Apollo 8 ⓘ
Launch pads 39A and 39B → notableLaunch → Apollo 8 ⓘ
subject surface form: Launch Pad 39A
LC-39A → notableLaunch → Apollo 8 ⓘ
Saturn V S-II second stage → usedOnMission → Apollo 8 ⓘ
Apollo 9 → precededBy → Apollo 8 ⓘ
CSM-103 → partOf → Apollo 8 ⓘ
CSM-103 → callSign → Apollo 8 ⓘ
CSM-103 → missionPatch → Apollo 8 ⓘ
this entity surface form: Apollo 8 mission insignia
Earthrise photograph → takenDuring → Apollo 8 ⓘ
subject surface form: Earthrise
this entity surface form: Apollo 8 mission
Earthrise photograph → spacecraft → Apollo 8 ⓘ
subject surface form: Earthrise
Service Propulsion System → usedOnMission → Apollo 8 ⓘ
Saturn rocket family → launchedMission → Apollo 8 ⓘ
subject surface form: Saturn V
USS New Orleans → participatedIn → Apollo 8 ⓘ
Apollo spacesuit → usedInMission → Apollo 8 ⓘ
NASA Astronaut Group 3 → contributedToMission → Apollo 8 ⓘ
Borman → commanded → Apollo 8 ⓘ
subject surface form: Frank Borman
Borman → participatedIn → Apollo 8 ⓘ
subject surface form: Frank Borman
Countdown: An Autobiography → mainSubject → Apollo 8 ⓘ
Countdown: An Autobiography → focusesOn → Apollo 8 ⓘ
this entity surface form: Apollo 8 mission
Marilyn Lovell → spouseMission → Apollo 8 ⓘ