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five82 | 3 years ago

I believe Apollo 8 was originally supposed to be a low earth orbit shakedown with the LEM. Because the LEM wasn’t ready, they decided to send them to the moon.

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m4rtink|3 years ago

IIRC there might have been Soviets in a Zond capsule launched on a Proton beating US to the lunar orbit in play when changing the plans for Apollo 8.