USPS FDC Gamm Cachet # 1371 - 1969 6c Apollo 8 Moon Orbit ST3205

Description: USPS FDC Gamm Cachet # 1371 - 1969 6c Apollo 8 Moon Orbit Issue Date: May 5, 1969City: Houston, TXQuantity: 187,165,000Printed By: Bureau of Engraving and PrintingPrinting Method: Giori PressPerforations: 11Color: Black, blue and ocher This stamp honors Apollo 8, which was launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida on December 21, 1968. The goal of the mission was to put astronauts in orbit around the moon, and advance toward the eventual goal of landing on the moon. This mission was the second manned spaceflight mission in the Apollo program, and the first to leave low Earth orbit, travel around the moon and safely return to Earth. It was also the first human spaceflight launched from Kennedy Space Center. The mission was originally planned for early 1969 but was moved up to December 1968 because the more ambitious lunar orbiter that was supposed to launch first wouldn’t be ready in time. As a result, the crew had two to three months less training than they had expected. The astronauts that would go on the mission were Frank Borman, James A. Lovell, Jr., and William Anders. On the night before their launch, the crew had a special visitor – Charles Lindbergh, who’d famously flown solo across the Atlantic Ocean 41 years earlier. Lindbergh had asked how much fuel the rocket needed to get into space and was told 20 tons per second. He then smiled and said to the astronauts, “In the first second of your flight tomorrow, you’ll burn 10 times more fuel than I did all the way to Paris.”

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