Apollo 8 - TLI (Full Mission 02)

Apollo 8 - TLI - Full Mission 02

This video details the earth orbit operations, TLI and S4B Seperation of Apollo 8 on 21st December 1968. It is the second of an intended series which will cover the entire mission from countdown to splashdown.

Perhaps the greatest and most under stated sentence in history - "Apollo 8, you are go for TLI" - giving the green light for the first time that human beings were to break free from earths gravity.

The video starts with the crew safely in orbit and preparing for their TLI, followed by the TLI sequence and subsequent S4B jettison.

The video is presented in 16:9 to allow use of photos and captions on the right of the screen. Apollo Guidence Computer programme DSKY is used to show Mission Elapsed Time.

Listen out to CDR Borman referring to the spacecraft as Gemini 8 and the PAO getting the altitudes wrong during TLI - something he profusely apologises for later!

NOTE -

Unlike most of the Apollo series, there are frequent tapes played as opposed to live communications.

All Video and audio is courtesy of NASA.

My thanks to Jim Lovell for providing technical assistance during this Full Mission series.

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