The only photo of Neil Armstrong on the moon, taken by Buzz Aldrin, and other historic space photographs are headed to ...

“Earthrise” begins with a quotation from William Anders, who, as a member of the first crew to circle the moon, took the ...

Originally Lovell had been assigned to the Apollo 8 backup crew. But when Mike Collins had to drop out for surgery on his spine, Lovell was reunited with his Gemini commander, Borman, for Apollo 8.

Anders was part of the 1968 Apollo 8 crew who became the first three people ... Titled "Earthrise," the iconic photo showed Earth as a shadowed blue marble peeking out from beyond the moon's ...

As Apollo 8 emerged from the far side on its fourth orbit, crew commander Frank Borman rolled the spacecraft so as to position its antennas for radio contact with mission control. Looking to the ...

The former Apollo 8 astronaut was known for taking the iconic "Earthrise" photo showing the planet as ... was about one in ...

"We got millions of telegrams after we landed, but the one I remember most was, 'Congratulations to the crew of Apollo 8. You saved 1968.' We didn't save it [ourselves] — but a lot of the people ...

Just four months before scheduled lift-off, Nasa decided to switch the crews of Apollo 8 and 9 - and send the earlier mission to the Moon. That meant the crew had about a third of the time they ...