Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders adjlusts his helmet while suiting up for his 1968 moon mission. (NASA Photo) Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders, who snapped the iconic “Earthrise” photo of our planet as ...
Fifty-seven years ago, three American astronauts set forth on one of the most audacious and inspiring journeys in human history. In late December 1968, NASA astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell, and ...
SEATTLE (AP) — Retired Maj. Gen. William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic "Earthrise" photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday ...
MOUNT PLEASANT — One of America’s most monumental space missions ended not in Houston, but on the deck of an aircraft carrier that would one day call Charleston Harbor home. When Apollo 8 fell back to ...