Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders, who took the iconic "Earthrise" photograph while in lunar orbit that showed the Earth from the moon's surface, has died, NASA administrator Bill Nelson said Friday.

The Apollo 8 mission lifted off shortly before 8 a.m. on Dec. 21, 1968, with the giant Saturn V rocket pushing them out of earth’s orbit for the 240,000-mile journey to the moon. That had not ...

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Many have pointed out the irony of the photo, since Apollo 8 was sent to study and take pictures of the moon's surface — not Earth. "Of all the objectives NASA had set before launch, no one had ...

to help them remember Apollo 8 and humankind's first venture from the earth. And we all had various suggestions." Lovell: "Almost the whole world would be listening to us on Christmas Eve.

Read some insider stories from the Apollo 8 mission to the moon ... "The one nice thing about being on earth if someone gets sick, it lands on the floor. In 0-G [zero gravity], it floats ...

More than 50 years after the most recent crewed moon landing — Apollo 17 in December 1972 — there are plenty of reasons to ...

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Bill Anders, lunar module pilot of Apollo 8, the first human spaceflight to leave Earth's orbit, said sending crews to Mars was "almost ridiculous". Nasa is currently planning new human missions ...

The first photos of Earth sent back by the Apollo crews in the 1960s dramatically impressed us that our tiny blue planet rotating in space is precious and fragile. The ...

The Earth in this image from Apollo XI looks dauntingly ... Jeff Kluger’s latest book Apollo 8 will be released on May 16. It is available for pre-order here. Correction: The original version ...

Borman’s professionalism helped the risky Apollo 8 mission become a success ... vital information about what lies beneath and how Earth’s satellite evolved.