Talk:Apollo 8

Who was the first person to orbit the Earth and a native of?

Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space. Travelling in the Vostok 1 capsule, Gagarin completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961.The start is wrong in orbiting a celestial body. 80.249.248.9 (talk) 19:08, 29 March 2023 (UTC)

The article says the first crewed spacecraft to orbit more than one celestial body Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:30, 29 March 2023 (UTC)

WP:URFA/2020

I am reviewing this very old FA as part of WP:URFA/2020, an effort to determine whether old featured articles still meet the featured article criteria.

• I have attempted various fixes to deal with the MOS:SANDWICH created by the lengthy infobox and the table in the Framework section, but have not found anything that works. Also, I find the same sandwiching in most of the similar space articles, so a global approach would be better, and I'm not sure what that might be. I wonder if the table of Prime crew and Backup crew are necessary, or if they could be converted to prose to avoid the SANDWICH problem, or if it would be better to move the crew image out of the infobox to a different part of the article, but unsure where. I'd like to get this marked with its third "Satisfactory" at WP:URFA/2020A so it can be Moved to FAR not needed. Can someone address the sandwiching here and in all the similar articles? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:40, 19 December 2021 (UTC)

Translating to Afrikaans...

Hi there! I am active on the Afrikaans Wikipedia and is busy translating this article. I battle to understand the following sentence: "They would continue to do so until they performed their last mid-course correction, switching to a reference frame based on ideal orientation for the second engine burn they would make in lunar orbit." Especially the last past starting from "on ideal orientation". Can somebody please assist? Best regards. Oesjaar (talk) 17:10, 16 May 2023 (UTC)

@Oesjaar: Better late than never! This is explained in the Apollo 8 Flight Journal at 072:00:26:

The current alignment of the platform was meant to match the spacecraft's prograde attitude for this burn when it was calculated such that the burn attitude would be 0°, 180°, 0°. This is to make it easier to monitor the attitude during what is an especially critical burn.

-- John of Reading (talk) 09:36, 20 September 2023 (UTC)

Marriages

It is also the only crew whose members never divorced. 73.151.67.233 (talk) 07:44, 28 August 2023 (UTC)

Replace infobox image

Hello, given the recent discussion on Commons, I suggest replacing the Earthrise picture with one that has better colors and less compression. I would do that myself, but this is such a high-profile article I prefer to reach a minimum consensus first. RodRabelo7 (talk) 06:51, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

@Evil Monkey, Hawkeye7, Alan G. Archer, Ultraexactzz, JustinTime55, Abebenjoe, Jonesey95, Laser brain, and WDGraham: pinging main contributors to this article. RodRabelo7 (talk) 06:58, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

I'm not sure what is being replaced. Is there a better version of "Earthrise" available? Is there a newer version available that looks better? If so, it isn't really much of debate. Just replace the older one with the better colour and compression protocal. I consider that a minor upgrade. Abebenjoe (talk) 07:07, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

As a side note, I'm too tired to edit it accurately without messing up citations down stream, but why are there citations in the lede? Everything in the lede is cited in the body of the article, no need for citations in the lede, as new information is not supposed to be introduced to the lede, as it is a summary of everything in the body. Abebenjoe (talk) 08:07, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

Which one is closest to the original? To me, the real picture would take precedence over any manipulated version. Randy Kryn (talk) 11:28, 21 September 2024 (UTC)