[Apollo 8]

This striking image captures the Saturn V rocket during liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center on December 21, 1968, at 12:51:00 UTC. Apollo 8 was the first crewed mission to use the Saturn V, and the first mission to orbit the Moon. After traveling to the Moon for 68 hours, the mission orbited the Moon ten times in twenty hours. Upon return, the astronauts were named Time magazine's "Men of the Year".