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NASA planned two piloted Apollo-Saturn missions in 1968: AS-205 (Apollo 7) to prove the Block II spacecraft ready for a lunar mission, and AS-503 (Apollo 8), the first piloted flight aboard a Saturn V to test the lunar module in low Earth orbit. Because of development delays, however, Apollo 8 would test the command and service modules in lunar orbit, and is remembered for the spectacular pictures of Earth rising over the lunar horizon.
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Slotkin, A.L. (2012). Orbiting the Moon. In: Doing the Impossible. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3701-7_9
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