NASA's Apollo 8 mission, launched in 1968, represented a vital milestone in human space exploration: carrying the first crew to beyond low Earth orbit and toward the moon. When you purchase ...

Until new moon missions take off, here's a look back at all of NASA's Apollo missions, which flew between 1968 and 1972 and succeeded in putting the first humans on the moon. The Apollo 1 mission ...

On Dec. 27, 1968, two days after Christmas in one of the USA's worst years on record, the astronauts aboard Apollo 8 returned home after almost a week in space. The NASA mission crewed by ...

according to NASA. The first crewed flight occurred in 1968, and the final mission occurred in 1972. By the time the Apollo missions came to an end, 12 astronauts had walked on or driven over the ...

To this day, that 1968 mission is considered to be NASA's boldest and perhaps most dangerous undertaking. That first voyage by humans to another world set the stage for the still grander Apollo 11 ...

NASA astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders. Their Christmastime lunar voyage on Apollo 8 had been, in the editors’ opinion, a “transcendent legacy” of 1968 and “a ...

The last time that NASA astronauts splashed down in the nighttime was in 1968, when the three astronauts of Apollo 8, the first to orbit the moon, returned to Earth. Less than half an hour after ...

In a statement on X, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said Bill ... The quarter-million mile flight reached the moon on Christmas Eve 1968, and controllers in Houston wanted to know what the moon ...

NASA announced that Borman died on Nov. 7 ... captured the legendary "Earthrise" photo while orbiting the moon on Christmas Eve in 1968. (Anders snapped the actual photo.) Before Anders aimed ...