Talk:Apollo 8

Rollout

The image shows Apollo 6 with its white service module, not Apollo 8. The launch image correctly shows Apollo 8 with its silver service module. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 104.8.142.123 (talk) 23:19, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

--- Disregard. I have since seen a close-up of the Apollo 10 rollout and have seen that the SM is covered by a white fabric cover. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 104.8.142.123 (talk) 07:11, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

Present location of the King James Bible or the printed verses

Does anyone know the present location of either the copy of the King James Bible or the paper(s) on which the printed verses appeared that was used by the crew members for their Genesis bible reading? This seems to be a major historical artifact, is it accounted for? Did each crew member have the verses he would read on an index card or something similar, or were they on a single sheet of paper or the actual book as indicated by the pauses between the time the two first readers ended their recital and the next began. Thanks. Randy Kryn (talk) 13:13, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

I know you'll see my response at Talk:Apollo 8 Genesis reading, but for anyone else looking in, it's on exhibit at the Adler Planetarium. I don't know if that's worth mentioning in this more general article, though. TJRC (talk) 16:50, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

Thank you, and thanks for your nice additions at the Apollo 8 Genesis reading page. Randy Kryn (talk) 17:59, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

Who was the first person to orbit the Earth and a native of?

Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space. Travelling in the Vostok 1 capsule, Gagarin completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961.The start is wrong in orbiting a celestial body. 80.249.248.9 (talk) 19:08, 29 March 2023 (UTC)

The article says the first crewed spacecraft to orbit more than one celestial body Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:30, 29 March 2023 (UTC)

WP:URFA/2020

I am reviewing this very old FA as part of WP:URFA/2020, an effort to determine whether old featured articles still meet the featured article criteria.

• I have attempted various fixes to deal with the MOS:SANDWICH created by the lengthy infobox and the table in the Framework section, but have not found anything that works. Also, I find the same sandwiching in most of the similar space articles, so a global approach would be better, and I'm not sure what that might be. I wonder if the table of Prime crew and Backup crew are necessary, or if they could be converted to prose to avoid the SANDWICH problem, or if it would be better to move the crew image out of the infobox to a different part of the article, but unsure where. I'd like to get this marked with its third "Satisfactory" at WP:URFA/2020A so it can be Moved to FAR not needed. Can someone address the sandwiching here and in all the similar articles? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:40, 19 December 2021 (UTC)

Translating to Afrikaans...

Hi there! I am active on the Afrikaans Wikipedia and is busy translating this article. I battle to understand the following sentence: "They would continue to do so until they performed their last mid-course correction, switching to a reference frame based on ideal orientation for the second engine burn they would make in lunar orbit." Especially the last past starting from "on ideal orientation". Can somebody please assist? Best regards. Oesjaar (talk) 17:10, 16 May 2023 (UTC)

@Oesjaar: Better late than never! This is explained in the Apollo 8 Flight Journal at 072:00:26:

The current alignment of the platform was meant to match the spacecraft's prograde attitude for this burn when it was calculated such that the burn attitude would be 0°, 180°, 0°. This is to make it easier to monitor the attitude during what is an especially critical burn.

-- John of Reading (talk) 09:36, 20 September 2023 (UTC)

Marriages

It is also the only crew whose members never divorced. 73.151.67.233 (talk) 07:44, 28 August 2023 (UTC)