About seven months before man first walked on the moon, man first orbited the moon. “Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders took mankind for the first time outside the bonds ...

All this year, we've been taking a look back at the events of 1968. It was a remarkable time in this country's history. It included raging protests, political assassinations and racial strife. But on ...

Apollo 8 ended its half-million mile voyage on Dec. 27, 1968, by burning through the atmosphere to a pinpoint landing in the dark and gently rolling tropical seas 1,000 miles south of Hawaii. In his ...

CHICAGO | 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 first ...

On Dec. 21, 1968, the Apollo program's second manned spaceflight lifted off from Earth to orbit the moon. Many people still remember the greetings... 1968: When Apollo 8 First Orbited The Moon And Saw ...

While we are used to seeing movies about Apollo missions, we are less accustomed to seeing them onstage. A.D. Players is ...

SAN JUAN COUNTY, Wash. (KOMO) — Retired Maj. Gen. William “Bill” Anders, a former Apollo 8 astronaut, was killed in a plane crash near the coast of Jones Island in Washington state Friday morning. He ...

Walter Cunningham, the last surviving astronaut from the first successful crewed space mission in NASA's Apollo program, has died. He was 90. NASA spokesman Bob Jacobs confirmed Cunningham's death.

Walter Cunningham, the last surviving astronaut from the first successful crewed space mission in NASA's Apollo program, died Tuesday in Houston. He was 90. NASA confirmed Cunningham’s death in a ...