NASA's director of flight operations during most of the Apollo ... out of the spacecraft and it turned out to be fresh air." Apollo 8 commander Frank Borman was a stickler for protocol.

The flight took place at the very end of 1968—one of the grimmest, bloodiest passages in human history. There ought to have been nothing that could redeem a year like that one, but Apollo 8 did.

NASA Apollo 8’s Frank Borman (front), James Lovell and Bill Anders head to the launchpad for the first-ever flight around the Moon. NASA The onboard voice recorder wasn’t always turned on ...

Anders captured an historic image of Earth showing the moon's surface in the foreground during the Apollo 8 flight on Christmas Eve 1968, titled "Earthrise." "We came all this way to explore the ...

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 ...

During Apollo 8, Capcom Mike Collins relayed news and sports scores to the astronauts during their flight, including one that had been played weeks earlier: "Navy, fourteen; Army, twenty-one." ...

Apollo 8 was the first mission when astronauts could admire their ... the mission profile was changed to the more ambitious lunar orbital flight in August 1968 when the Lunar Module scheduled for the ...