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, June 7 ...

American astronaut William Anders — who was a member of the Apollo 8 crew — was killed while piloting a plane that crashed off the Washington coast Friday, according to a report. He was 90 ...

Watch: Apollo 8 crew's Genesis reading. The full audio of Apollo 8's Christmas Eve message. NASA produced this video some years later, adding video footage from multiple Apollo missions.

The Apollo 8 astronauts returned to Earth on December 27, their spacecraft safely splashing down in the northern Pacific. All three crew members were named Time magazine's "Men of the Year." ...

He did not go into space until Dec. 21, 1968, when Apollo 8 lifted off on the first crewed mission to leave Earth orbit and travel 240,000 miles (386,000 km) to the moon.

The chronograph was also essential gear for Apollo 8, the first manned 240,000-mile flight to orbit the moon, including the foreboding “dark side” that humans had never set eyes on before.

William Anders, Apollo 8 astronaut who shot ‘Earthrise,’ dies at 90. As part of the first crewed mission to orbit the moon, he looked toward home and took one of the most famous photos of all ...

Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the moon, entered lunar orbit on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1968. That evening, the astronauts–Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot Jim Lovell, and ...

The film "Debriefing Apollo 8," released in 1969, documents the historic Apollo 8 mission, which marked humanity's first orbit around the Moon. It highlights the collaborative efforts of numerous ...

Apollo 8 was only the second crewed flight of the Apollo program; Apollo 7 had been a successful 11-day test of the new Apollo capsule that had, among other things, featured the first live ...