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 ...

The colour photograph of Earthrise - taken by Apollo 8 astronaut, William A. Anders, December 24, 1968. Although the photograph is usually mounted with the moon below the earth, this is how Anders ...

The broadcasts from Apollo 8 invited huge television audiences onboard ... That is how it came to pass that on the last revolution of the moon, we read from the Old Testament the first ten ...

The name was practically unknown to the public, but had it not been for Low, Time proclaimed, “there would have been no Apollo 8 flight to the moon.” The editors could have gone further.

About two weeks before the Apollo 11 mission was launched to the moon, Apollo 8 astronaut Frank Borman was in Moscow on a courtesy trip on behalf of NASA. The visit had been planned for months but ...

No one has been back to the moon for over 50 years, but the reasons why are multifaceted and not obvious at first glance.