Twenty-one months after the deaths of the Apollo 1 crew in a fire during a test on the launchpad, the three men who had ...

On. Oct. 11, 1968, Apollo 7 launched into space with NASA astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walter Cunningham. This ...

On October 10, 1968, NASA launched Apollo 7, the first successful crewed mission of the Apollo program. The 11-day flight tested critical spacecraft systems and paved the way for humanity's journey to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...