{"id":204,"date":"2024-01-19T20:56:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T04:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/?p=204"},"modified":"2024-05-19T19:05:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T02:05:15","slug":"apollo-8-begins-the-first-us-mission-to-orbit-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/?p=204","title":{"rendered":"Apollo 8\u00a0begins the first US mission to orbit the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">December 21, The launch of\u00a0Apollo 8\u00a0begins the first US mission to orbit the Moon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On\u00a0December 21, 1968, the Apollo 8 spacecraft became the first human to orbit the moon, and the first to leave low-Earth orbit and travel back.\u00a0The crew, which included Frank Borman, Bill Anders, and Jim Lovell, orbited the moon 10 times over 20 hours, and then landed in the Pacific Ocean on December 27, 1968.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J0Kr8p7ZHHc?si=RHQIWCHzh2JIrIgA\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 21, The launch of\u00a0Apollo 8\u00a0begins the first US mission to orbit the Moon. On\u00a0December 21, 1968, the Apollo 8 spacecraft became the first human to orbit the moon, and the first to leave low-Earth orbit and travel back.\u00a0The crew, which included Frank Borman, Bill Anders, and Jim Lovell, orbited the moon 10 times over&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}