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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...