One of the most enduring and powerful images from America's space program. Earthrise was taken on Christmas eve in 1968 by Astronaut William Anders, Lunar Module Pilot. It is a vintage print in suberb ...

The film "Debriefing Apollo 8," released in 1969, documents the historic Apollo 8 mission, which marked humanity's first orbit around the Moon. It highlights the collaborative efforts of numerous ...

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.

"I don't know that I could spend a month on a desert island with Frank [Borman]; we might tear each other apart before it was over. I might get two weeks in with [Jim] Lovell though." When the ...

NASA The astronauts prepare for their lunar-orbit mission inside a simulator at Kennedy Space Center (from left: Anders, Lovell and Borman). NASA Apollo 8’s Frank Borman (front), James Lovell ...

Lovell's career at NASA began in September 1962 and he embarked on his first space mission for the Gemini 7 mission on December 4, 1965. According to NASA, the flight lasted 330 hours and 35 minutes ...

Commander of the Apollo 14 lunar landing mission. No space program from any other nation before or since the Apollo program has sent human beings beyond Earth’s orbit. All soviet cosmonauts ...

“Among his many accomplishments, he served as the commander of the Apollo 8 mission, humanity’s first mission around the Moon in 1968.” “His lifelong love for aviation and exploration was ...

Delays in the construction of the lunar module, Low argued, could mean that Apollo 8’s original mission—a test of the command and lunar modules in Earth orbit—would be impossible in 1968.