Apollo 8: Lunar Orbit With the Lunar Module still in process and reports of Soviet advances in their lunar program, NASA decided to change the mission of Apollo 8. Rather than another Earth orbit ...

Overall view of the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center, Building 30, on the third day of the Apollo 8 lunar orbit mission. Seen on the television monitor is a picture of ...

explaining his reaction to opening the Apollo 8 capsule The Apollo 8 mission made history and its crew were rightfully honored as the bravest of explorers. Of course, these heroes were only human.

NASA's Apollo 8 mission in 1968 became the first human spaceflight to reach the Moon and back but an image repeatedly portrayed on social media as showing a couple watching its launch is digitally ...

One of the first men to orbit the Moon has told BBC Radio 5 Live that it's "stupid" to plan manned missions to Mars. Bill Anders, Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo 8, the first manned spaceflight to ...

One of the first men to orbit the Moon has told BBC Radio 5 Live that it's "stupid" to plan human missions to Mars. Bill Anders, lunar module pilot of Apollo 8, the first human spaceflight to ...

Journey through the incredible story of NASA’s Apollo Program—from Kennedy’s ambitious lunar deadline to the triumph of ...

Anders' famous "Earthrise" photo was taken on Christmas Eve in 1968 during the Apollo 8 mission. "Bill Anders offered to humanity among the deepest of gifts an astronaut can give. He traveled to ...

50 years ago this Christmas, three Nasa astronauts; Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders became the first people to orbit the Moon. At the time, the Apollo 8 mission was hailed as the greatest ...

The December 1968 journey of the Apollo 8 crew into lunar orbit verified ... will live through the ages For many of us the Apollo 8 mission and broadcasts will always hold a special significance ...