As 'Apollo 13' turns 30, we talk to legendary NASA flight director Gerry Griffin who helped make the film as realistic as ...

The so-called "right stuff" manifests rather differently in "Apollo 13". Sure, this generation of astronauts knows the final ...

Astronaut Frank Borman, who commanded Apollo 8’s historic Christmas 1968 flight that circled the moon 10 times and paved the way for the lunar landing the next year, has died. He was 95.

Apollo 7 was the first mission since Apollo 1 that contained a crew. Walter "Wally" Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walter "Walt" Cunningham were the first of the Apollo program to make it into space.

FILE - Apollo 8 astronauts, suited up and ready to go, walk to a van heading for their Saturn V rocket for their moon orbit mission from Cape Kennedy, Fla., Dec. 21, 1968.

Borman commanded the Apollo 8 Christmas 1968 flight, which circled the moon 10 times and paved the way for the lunar landing the next year. He died Tuesday, NASA said.

The success of Apollo 7′s mission in October 1968 to show system reliability on long duration flights made NASA decide it was time to take a shot at flying to the moon.

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (KFOX14/CBS4) — Astronaut Frank Borman, the commander of the first Apollo mission to the moon and former resident of Las Cruces has died at age 95. Borman commanded Apollo 8's ...

When Apollo astronauts first set foot on the Moon, they expected to find the typical grey rocks and dust that had long been associated with Earth’s closest neighbor. What they didn’t expect to ...

Astronaut Frank Borman, who commanded Apollo 8’s historic Christmas 1968 flight that circled the moon 10 times and paved the way for the lunar landing the next year, has died. He was 95. Borm… ...

Frank Borman commanded two early NASA missions including Apollo 8, the first to orbit the moon. He was a no-nonsense astronaut known for his keen attention to detail and duty to country.

Astronaut Frank Borman, who commanded Apollo 8's historic Christmas 1968 flight that circled the moon 10 times and paved the way for the lunar landing the next year, has died. He was 95.