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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Navy Seal frogman to astronaut William Anders, explaining his reaction to opening the Apollo 8 capsule The Apollo 8 mission made history and its crew were rightfully honored as the bravest of ...

A photo of Apollo 15. To land a person on the Moon required one of the most sudden and unprecedented advancements of technological advancement and human creativity. It also included the largest ...

Frank Borman, commander of Apollo 8, wrote in his autobiography, "The NASA of more recent years got the idea that you could put almost any highly intelligent person into a spacecraft and qualify ...