Frank Borman, commander of Apollo 8, wrote in his autobiography, "The NASA of more recent years got the idea that you could put almost any highly intelligent person into a spacecraft and qualify ...

Retired Maj. Gen. William Anders, 90, a former astronaut who was part of the Apollo 8 mission to the moon in 1968, has been ...

explaining his reaction to opening the Apollo 8 capsule The Apollo 8 mission made history and its crew were rightfully honored as the bravest of explorers. Of course, these heroes were only human.

NASA's most remarkable achievements include launching Explorer 1 in 1958, the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing, and the Hubble ...

WASHINGTON, June 8. /TASS/. William Anders, one of the members of the Apollo 8 space mission, has died as a result of a plane crash, Fox13 reported. According to the news portal, Anders was ...

United Launch Alliance's next-generation Vulcan soared off the pad in the Jan. 8 post-midnight darkness on its inaugural flight from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. But up in space ...

The Apollo moon program resulted in a legacy of thousands of images - all of them of immense value as both scientific and documentary records. Yet 30 years after the event most of them speak only ...

The six-legged robotic spacecraft that's traveled more than 1 million kilometers (or more than 621,000 miles) since launching a day after Valentine's Day could potentially become the first American ...