Some time next year Artemis II will blast off and carry a crew of four on a shakedown cruise to the moon. They will not land but will spend 10 days testing the systems needed to return humans to the ...
The last time a crew of Americans rode a rocket toward the Moon, the country was reeling from assassinations, riots, and a ...
Skimming just 60 miles above the surface, astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders stared into the Moon’s ...
On Christmas Eve 1968, the Earth received a message from astronauts on a mission like no other - the first around the moon. NASA will return in 2026.
The first manned mission to the moon returned to earth on December 27, 1968. Apollo 8's crew did not walk on the moon's ...
On Dec. 21, 1968, NASA’s Apollo 8 mission launched to the moon. Apollo 8 was the second crewed mission in NASA’s Apollo ...
On Christmas Eve 1968, Apollo 8 crewmembers Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders made a live broadcast from orbit around the Moon.