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 ...

along with making sure the Apollo 8 command module and service module worked. The photograph, the first colour image of Earth from space, is one of the most important photos in modern history for ...

Anders said the photo was his most significant contribution to the space program, given the ecological philosophical impact ...

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 ...

The Apollo IX mission test-flew the command module and lunar module together in ... Jeff Kluger’s latest book Apollo 8 will be released on May 16. It is available for pre-order here.

The Apollo 8 crew would still fly ... in which three astronauts took the command module on an 11-day, Earth-orbit shakedown cruise in October 1968. The green light for the lunar mission came ...

"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 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.

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