re: #88 Gus 802
Yep. First TLI (Translunar Injection). It wasn’t even the plan at first but decided to go for it at the “last minute.” Took some time to perform the final calculations and program the computers.
Of course we all know what Frank Borman read during that voyage. ;)
The Apollo 8 mission had been planned to go to the Moon before launch, but it was a change of plans as of a few months earlier.