The astronauts of Apollo 8 were the first men to see the far side of the moon with their own eyes, without the aid of optical devices. From their orbital altitude of 69 statute miles, Frank Borman ...
NASA’s Apollo 8 mission launched to the moon. Apollo 8 was the second crewed mission in NASA’s Apollo program. It was also the first mission to bring humans to the moon. It lifted off from Kennedy ...
Instead, space exploration had grasped the world’s attention that Christmas Eve. Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders were orbiting the moon, broadcasting live to roughly a ...
Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders were orbiting the moon, broadcasting live to roughly a quarter of the world’s population. Apollo 8, the first manned mission to ...
On Christmas Eve 1968, as Apollo 8 orbited the Moon, astronaut William "Bill" Anders captured a photograph that forever altered how humanity sees itself. That image, now famously known as ...