Apollo 8 commander Frank Borman was a stickler for ... was just to orbit the moon and return; everything else was superfluous). He argued (unsuccessfully) against taking a television camera ...

Apollo 8's lunar orbit mission went exceedingly well ... Quick thinking, in space and in mission control, was required to return the crew safely to earth. Until the long-duration flights aboard ...

The colour photograph of Earthrise - taken by Apollo 8 astronaut, William A. Anders, December 24, 1968. Although the photograph is usually mounted with the moon below the earth, this is how Anders ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, managed the Ranger program, a series of spacecraft designed to return ... Apollo 11 landed 44 miles southeast of the Ranger 8 impact ...