50 years ago on December 24, 1968, the Apollo 8 astronaut crew captured one of the most iconic color images of the space age. The three men — Jim Lovell, Bill Anders and Frank Borman — were ...

Apollo 8's famous "Earthrise" image of 1968 has been re-created by blending high-resolution lunar imagery from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Earth's surface as depicted in NASA's Blue ...

Created by NASA animator Ernie Wright using high-resolution topography data from LRO’s Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter, photos from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on the Terra ...

To mark the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 8 “Earthrise” photograph, NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio has recreated this historic moment exactly as the astronauts saw it, using data ...

Apollo 8, the first mission to carry humans to the moon, entered lunar orbit on December 24, 1968. That evening, mission commander Frank Borman, command module pilot Jim Lovell, and lunar module ...

Perhaps NASA’s most iconic Earthrise photo was taken by the crew of the Apollo 8 mission as the spacecraft entered lunar orbit on Christmas Eve Dec. 24, 1968.

Astronaut Bill Anders, who orbited the moon aboard Apollo 8 in 1968, has died in a plane crash off the coast of Washington state. His photo 'Earthrise' captivated the world.

Constellation astronauts, Anousheh Ansari, Ron Garan, Leland Melvin and Nicole Stott, will be leading a celebration of legendary photo Earthrise taken by the crew of Apollo 8. Apollo 8 launched fro… ...

Astronaut William Anders, the 1951 Grossmont High School graduate who took what may be the most famous photo of Earth during the history-making Apollo 8 mission, has died at 90.

On Dec. 24, 1968, Bill Anders orbited the moon as lunar module pilot with the Apollo 8 crew on humanity's first voyage to another world. It was he who took the iconic Earthrise photo on Christmas ...