With the historic first international space docking mission only six months away, preparations on the ground for the ...

Donn Eisele and Walt Cunningham orbited the earth for ten days in an Apollo command-service module. Apollo 8: Lunar Orbit With the Lunar Module still in process and reports of Soviet advances in ...

Apollo 8 was the first mission where humans orbited the moon and returned home, marking a huge step forward in human and ...

"I think we were all surprised at how strong that thing was," Apollo 8 astronaut Frank Borman said ... during launch and landing in the Command Module, which measured 3.9m (12.8ft) at its widest ...

Apollo 8 commander Frank Borman was a stickler for ... Borman was not the only "Peanuts" fan at NASA. The Apollo 10 command module was called Charlie Brown and the lunar module, Snoopy.

Mr Anders said the photo was his most significant contribution to the space programme, given the ecological philosophical impact it had, along with making sure the Apollo 8 command module and ...

Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the moon, entered lunar orbit on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1968. That evening, the astronauts–Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot Jim Lovell ...

Apollo 8 was the second crewed mission in NASA ... that a Saturn V launched with people on board. In the Apollo Command Module were astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders.