George M. Low was a leading NASA engineer and administrator, whose strategic vision and systems expertise shaped U.S.

The voyage of Apollo 8 from December 21-27, 1968, marked humans' first venture to another heavenly body. "We were flying to the moon for the first time," said Jim Lovell, one of the three astronauts ...

Wikimedia Commons/NASA Apollo 8 Astronauts and the USS Yorktown Apollo 8 splashed down at 10:51 a.m. on December 27, 1968, in the Pacific Ocean 1,000 miles southwest of Hawaii. USS Yorktown waited ...

Former astronaut Frank Borman still keeps his tattered copy of "The Red Eagle," a children's book about flying and building airplanes.

Kaguya was the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) second mission to explore the moon from orbit, launching on ...

View [Apollo 8] THE FIRST CLEAR PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN BY HUMANS FROM ANOTHER WORLD: Langrenus Crater following lunar orbit insertion (1968) By Borman Frank; Vintage chromogenic print; 20.3 x 25.4 cm. (8 x ...

View [Apollo 8] THE FIRST COLOR PHOTOGRAPH OF TSIOLKOVSKY, THE MOST STRIKING CRATER ON THE MOON'S FARSIDE, CAPTURED BY HUMANS (1968) By Borman Frank; Vintage chromogenic print; 20.3 x 25.4 cm. (8 x 10 ...

Charlie Javice began calling defense witnesses Thursday in the JPMorgan fraud trial in New York. Her first was Apollo's Marc Rowan, an early investor and board member for her website, Frank. Rowan ...

Tom Hanks is taking people on a virtual ride to the moon. At Space Center Houston, visitors can experience an immersive 270-degree multi-screen view of the Apollo missions. "The Moonwalkers: A ...

Borman served as commander of the Gemini 7 and Apollo 8 missions in the 1960s. Photo by Mike Christy / for the Arizona Daily Star ...

NASA's Apollo 8 mission in 1968 became the first human spaceflight to reach the Moon and back but an image repeatedly portrayed on social media as showing a couple watching its launch is digitally ...

That evening the Apollo 8 astronauts read from the Bible in the book of Genesis during a television broadcast. Astronauts Bill Anders read verses 1-4, Jim Lovell read verses 5-8 and Frank Borman ...