December 21st, 1968
Apollo program: Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. At 2h:50m:37s Mission elapsed time (MES), the crew performs the first ever manned Trans Lunar Injection and become the first humans to leave Earth s gravity. event on December 21, 1968. Read about how to open files in Open File Database.
Events around December 21, 1968
| December 23rd, 1968 | Event | The United States won the release of 82 sailors by issuing a writing apology to North Korea for spying on the Communist country. |
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