(Reuters) -Retired astronaut William Anders, who was one of the first three humans to orbit the moon, capturing the famed "Earthrise" photo during NASA's Apollo 8 mission in 1968, died on Friday in ...

CHICAGO (AP) – Standing by a part of the Apollo 8 spacecraft he once rode, retired astronaut James Lovell on Monday read the 1968 Christmastime broadcast from the day he and two others became the ...

Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders adjlusts his helmet while suiting up for his 1968 moon mission. (NASA Photo) Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders, who snapped the iconic “Earthrise” photo of our planet as ...

FLORIDA, USA — On this day in 1968, the Apollo 8 astronauts witnessed something humans had never seen before — an "Earthrise." Astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders captured the iconic ...

However one particular Apollo photograph transcends all others, an image so powerful and eloquent that even today it ranks as ...

Apollo 8’s improbable rescue of a broken year By the time Apollo 8 left Earth, 1968 had become shorthand for chaos, with the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, the Tet ...

'My reason for joining NASA was to participate in the Apollo program, the lunar program, and hopefully beat the Russians. I never looked at it for any individual goals.' When you purchase through ...