The voyage of Apollo 8 from December 21-27, 1968, marked humans' first venture to another heavenly body. "We were flying to the moon for the first time," said Jim Lovell, one of the three astronauts ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This collection consists a memo and correspondence relating to the Apollo 8 broadcast as well as notes relating to various astronaut post-flight ...

Wikimedia Commons/NASA Apollo 8 Astronauts and the USS Yorktown Apollo 8 splashed down at 10:51 a.m. on December 27, 1968, in the Pacific Ocean 1,000 miles southwest of Hawaii. USS Yorktown waited ...

The first joint space mission between the United States and Russia (then the Soviet Union) docked in Earth orbit half a ...

Fifty-five years ago, on Christmas Eve of 1968, Tucson astronaut and hometown legend Frank Borman and his Apollo 8 crew maneuvered into lunar orbit. As they circled the moon, they read from the ...

Pope Leo XIV marked the 56th anniversary of the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing with a video call to U.S. astronaut Buzz Aldrin.

I knew I was alone,” he observed later, “in a way that no earthling has ever been before.” That quote is immortalized on a ...

Kluger, who has written about the Apollo Program, talks about his new book: 'Gemini: Stepping Stone to the Moon, The Untold Story.' ...

“One boat sponsor, Flav R Pac, (was) owned by (the late Tri-Citian) Frank Tiegs,” said Stevens. “Darrell Strong owns two ...

Here’s a look at the life of astronaut Neil Armstrong. Personal Birth date: August 5, 1930 Death date: August 25, 2012 Birthplace: Wapakoneta, Ohio Birth name: Neil Alden Armstrong Father: Stephen ...

Welcome to Edition 8.02 of the Rocket Report! It's worth taking a moment to recognize an important anniversary in the history of human spaceflight next week. Fifty years ago, on July 15, 1975, NASA ...

Compensation deal for victims of Nazi forced-labor; Apollo-Soyuz mission; Julius Rosenberg arrested; anti-French revolt in ...