Navy Seal frogman to astronaut William Anders, 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 ...

Frank Borman, commander of Apollo 8, wrote in his autobiography, "The NASA of more recent years got the idea that you could put almost any highly intelligent person into a spacecraft and qualify ...

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Lovell's career at NASA began in September 1962 and he embarked on his first space mission for the Gemini 7 mission on ...

The National Transportation Safety Board and the FAA are investigating the crash. Anders was part of the Apollo 8 mission, ...

The colour photograph of Earthrise - taken by Apollo 8 astronaut, William A. Anders, December 24, 1968. Although the photograph is usually mounted with the moon below the earth, this is how Anders ...

Indeed, the self-effacing Borman commanded the first crewed trip around the moon, Apollo 8, in 1968, an essential step in the United States’ endeavor to be the first to land astronauts on the ...

Leonard S. Marcus brings the wonder of a 1968 snapshot to a new generation. “Earthrise,” taken by the Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders while in lunar orbit on Christmas Eve, 1968, at a ...