The+lift+off+experience

= In President Kennedy's address in 1961 he told the United States that they would get a man on the moon by the end of the decade.The very first attempt at achieving this dream was the Apollo 1 mission which was a failure do to a flash fire in their command module in which the Astronauts on board had died. Later a change was made to make a fireproof command module on to the new spacecraft....the Apollo 8. = = The Apollo 8 mission was designed to create a stepping stone to get man on the moon. The Apollo 8 or the //Saturn V// was first launched on December 21, 1968. The Astronauts; Borman, Lovell, and Anders were the first men to break free of earth's gravity. Although they didn't land on the moon in the Apollo 8, the astronauts were able to orbit the moon. = = James Oberg was present during the lift off of the Apollo 8 space craft and explains vividly the experience, "a rippling rumble, as if the sky were being torn apart--the rocket was already high in the sky and arching east." = = The very first attempt at achieving this dream was the Apollo 1 mission which was a failure do to a flash fire in their command module in which the Astronauts on board had died. = = One of the Astronauts; Anders described the trip on the Apollo 8 as, "a bit of a drag," because of his dealings with motion sickness as they left the atmosphere. =