Apollo 8 mission pronounced as Apollo eight/h mission

[GoodTaste]

When astronauts first saw Earth from afar in the Apollo 8 mission in 1968 - the US's second manned mission to the Moon - they described a cognitive shift in awareness after seeing our planet "hanging in the void."

Source: Science Alert

Is Apollo 8 mission pronounced as Apollo eight mission or Apollo eighth mission?

 

[jutfrank]

the Apollo eight mission

 

[Barque]

Is Apollo 8 mission pronounced as Apollo eight mission or Apollo eighth mission?

There were different Apollo spaceflights, with different numbers.

It doesn't refer to the same Apollo which went up for the eighth time.