William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic "Earthrise" photo showing the planet ... there was about 1-in-3 chance that the crew wouldn't make it back and the same chance ...
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.
The only photo of Neil Armstrong on the moon, taken by Buzz Aldrin, and other historic space photographs are headed to ...
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 ...
“Earthrise,” taken by the Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders while ... as a member of the first crew to circle the moon, took the photo that gives the book its title and its framework ...
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 ...