Former Apollo 8 astronaut William "Bill" Anders has died ... grieving the loss of a great pilot," Greg said of the retired NASA astronaut, who was known for taking the iconic "Earthrise" photo.

HUM Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Frank Borman — a former NASA astronaut Col. who commandeered the Apollo 8 to the moon — has died at the age of 95. Borman died on Nov. 7 in Billings ...

NASA announced that Borman died on Nov. 7, 2023, in Billings, Montana. He was 95. As a nonagenarian, he still piloted a historic military aircraft. The Apollo 8 crew in training at the Flight ...

A piece of moon rock gifted to Ireland following NASA's historic Apollo 11 mission in 1969 was tragically destroyed in a fire ...

who brought a lawsuit against NASA). Borman: "I think the reason that it became spiritual, that Apollo 8 may have become spiritual, is because we read from Genesis, and I'd like to take credit for ...

To help matters, NASA developed special food that would produce as little waste as possible. Once the mission for Apollo 8 was reconfigured, the capsule would be scheduled to land in the Pacific ...

50 years ago this Christmas, three Nasa astronauts; Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders became the first people to orbit the Moon. At the time, the Apollo 8 mission was hailed as the greatest ...

Editor's note: This story was updated to reflect NASA's March 6 blog post announcing a delay in the SPHEREx/PUNCH launch to no earlier than (NET) Saturday, March 8 at 10:09 p.m. EST (7:09 p.m. PST).

“Earthrise,” taken by the Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders while in lunar orbit on Christmas Eve, 1968, at a distance of 240,000 miles from Earth.Credit...NASA Supported by By Marc Aronson ...