The Apollo program is arguably the most famous achievement of the United States regime, but how much do you really know about ...

Mark Kelly (D-AZ), who is also a retired NASA astronaut ... of our planet and ourselves with his famous Earthrise photo on Apollo 8. He inspired me and generations of astronauts and explorers.

Leonard S. Marcus brings the wonder of a 1968 snapshot to a new generation. “Earthrise,” taken by the Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders while in lunar orbit on Christmas Eve, 1968, at a ...

Lovell's career at NASA began in September 1962 and he embarked on his first space mission for the Gemini 7 mission on ...

Before sending a man to the Moon, NASA would need to attempt to send a crew out of Earth orbit. The initial manned flight about the Moon was Apollo 8, which launched from Earth on December 21 ...