Piece of Charcoal Used to Purify the Oxygen on Apollo VIII Mission

A piece of charcoal that was used to purify the oxygen within the Command Module ECS on Apollo VIII Mission, the first circumlunar flight, on December 25, 1968.

Apollo 8 (December 21–27, 1968) was the first crewed spacecraft to leave low Earth orbit and the first human spaceflight to reach the Moon. The crew orbited the Moon ten times without landing, and then departed safely back to Earth. These three astronauts—Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders—were the first humans to witness and photograph the far side of the Moon and an Earthrise.

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