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1 day ago · Apollo 9 →. Apollo 8 (December 21–27, 1968) was the first crewed spacecraft to leave Earth's gravitational sphere of influence, and the first human spaceflight to reach the Moon. The crew orbited the Moon ten times without landing, and then departed safely back to Earth. [1] [2] [3] These three astronauts — Frank Borman, James Lovell, and ...