Instead, space exploration had grasped the world’s attention that Christmas Eve. Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders were orbiting the moon, broadcasting live to roughl ...

"Christmas Eve, 1968. As one of the most turbulent, tragic years in American history drew to a close, millions around the world were watching and listening as the Apollo 8 astronauts - Frank ...

The Earth as viewed by Apollo 8 on Christmas Eve, 1968 I was one of those lads who was mad on space flight and, on Christmas Eve that year, Apollo 8 circled the moon over and over again and the ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is spending Christmas ... Apollo moon landing in 1969. At 6:53 a.m. ET on Tuesday (Dec. 24), the car-sized spacecraft was scheduled to zoom within 3.8 million miles ...

In the summer of 1968, astronaut Frank Borman was deep into training as the mission leader to test the Apollo command and ... television broadcast on Christmas Eve. As they pointed the camera ...

Reducing sulphur emissions also lowers albedo. Sulphate particles scatter light. As a result, some of it bounces back into space. Sulphate particles can also serve as seeds for the water droplets that ...

It was not because he caught Santa Claus coming down the chimney with a new bike. Instead, space exploration had grasped the world’s attention that Christmas Eve. Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim ...

FLORIDA, USA — On this day in 1968, the Apollo 8 astronauts witnessed something humans had never seen before — an "Earthrise." Astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders captured the ...