The Apollo 8 mission was a first of many kinds: the first to take humans to the moon and back, the first to launch on the Saturn V with a crew on board, the first to launch from NASA's Moonport ...

The achievements of Apollo 7 gave NASA the confidence to send Apollo 8 on a daring mission around the moon. The lunar lander wasn’t yet ready to fly, so the crew would test the Apollo capsule ...

Retired astronaut William Anders, who was a member of the Apollo 8 crew, has been identified as the pilot inside the plane that crashed in the waters off the San Juan Islands on Friday afternoon.

Wiseman's Artemis 2 crew plans to run a similar track to Apollo 8 in 2024. Four astronauts will fly around the moon, albeit skipping an orbit this time, and then make their way back to Earth.

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 ...

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 ...

William Anders made the iconic Earthrise photo on Dec. 24, 1968, during the Apollo 8 crew's fourth orbit of the moon, switching from black-and-white to color film to capture the planet.

Frank Borman, Apollo 8 commander who led first crew to orbit moon, dies at 95. One of nine tapped for NASA’s second astronaut corps, he commanded two missions that laid essential groundwork for ...

The Apollo 8 crew -- Commander Frank Borman, from left, Command Module Pilot James Lovell and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders -- appear on the USS Yorktown after their return to earth in 1968.

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.