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 ...

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 ...

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.

Apollo 8 was a seminal mission because it was the first time humans left the Earth's orbit, losing sight of their home planet. The Nasa mission that broadcast to a million people The Earthrise ...

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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 ...

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