He was a crew in the Apollo 8 mission, which lifted off on December 21, 1968, and was the first crewed mission to leave Earth orbit and travel 240,000 miles (386,000 km) to the moon. Anders was the ...

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 ...

Apollo 10 "dress rehearsal" mission launched into orbit, to set up the Apollo 11 moon landing mission a month later.

The rescue CSM and Saturn V would stand by until the Apollo lunar CSM safely departed lunar orbit and began the fall back to Earth, then would be rolled back to the cavernous Vehicle Assembly ...

Sponsor Message So when it was time for NASA's boldest mission — Apollo 8 — there was little doubt that Borman would command it. It was daring — the first time humans left low-Earth orbit ...

Apollo astronaut Col. Frank Borman, who commanded the first mission to orbit the moon, has died in Billings, Montana, NASA announced. He was 95. “Today we remember one of NASA’s best.

EXCLUSIVE: We are hearing that Apollo Global Management, which was mulling an offer for National Amusements, the Redstone family company that controls Paramount Global, is no longer considering ...

By Richard Goldstein Frank Borman, the commander of NASA’s 1968 Apollo 8 spaceflight, whose astronauts became the first men to orbit the moon, captured the famed image known as Earthrise and ...