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 ...

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.

Anders was part of the Apollo 8 mission, which orbitted the Moon before returning to Earth. The mission circled the Moon for ...

When Wright used his animation software to match Apollo 8’s orientation to each photo, he realized something remarkable: The spacecraft was pointed nose-down at the Moon and was still rotating ...

Maj. Gen. Bill Anders, 90, was a member of the Apollo 8 space mission, which was the first crew to reach the moon in 1968. He took one of the most famous photographs of the Earth rising over the ...

Bill Anders (left), Jim Lovell, and Frank Borman during preflight training for Apollo 8. Although they had only a few months to prepare for the revised mission, the astronauts were happy to orbit ...

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

The cavernous thermal-vacuum test facility is famous for testing the Apollo spacecraft that traveled to the moon in the 1960s and '70s. The instrument enclosure is designed to protect the ...