Hearing this historic moment unfold I felt like a stowaway aboard Apollo 8. When I delved deeper into the photo archives from Apollo 8, one added wrinkle awaited me: The iconic color image wasn ...

Retired Maj. Gen. William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic "Earthrise" photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when the ...

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 ...

Scientists had an interest in this area of the moon as a possible landing zone for a future human landing, and indeed Apollo ...

Purchase it here. Jeff Kluger’s latest book Apollo 8 will be released on May 16. It is available for pre-order here. Correction: The original version of a photo caption accompanying this story ...

The broadcasts from Apollo 8 invited huge television audiences onboard the spacecraft. The astronauts showed how things worked in the capsule and performed a memorable Christmas Eve reading.