Migration
Capsule on tour, 1969
Stars and Stripes
May 20, 2021
©Stars and StripesKassel, Germany, August, 1969: Autobahn travelers get an unexpected brush with history as a truck carrying the Apollo 8 command module stops at a U.S. military service station during a tour of base exchanges in Europe. The capsule was flown by astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders on the first manned trip around the moon eight months earlier.