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 ...

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 ...

It was shortly after 5:30 a.m. on Christmas Eve that something remarkable happened. After spotting the barren, far side of the moon for the first time, the astronauts onboard captured a photo that has ...

Retired U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. William Anders, 90, the Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic “Earthrise” photo on Christmas Eve in 1968 showing the earth as a shadowed blue marble from ...

While flying through space, the crew of Apollo 8 made a live broadcast on Christmas Eve. They read the book of Genesis in the Bible. At the time, celebrating Christmas was banned in the Soviet Union, ...

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 ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is spending Christmas Eve on a history-making ... liken to the historic Apollo moon landing in 1969. At 6:53 a.m. ET on Tuesday (Dec. 24), the car-sized spacecraft was ...

At 6:53 a.m. ET on Tuesday (Dec. 24), the car-sized spacecraft zoomed to within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million ... studied the surface of Venus. On Christmas Eve, the probe flew through plumes ...

Related: Christmas Eve at the Moon: Apollo 8's Historic Message Beamed to Earth Today in 1968 While they weren't the first crew to spend Dec. 5 in space, the crew of the United State's first space ...

The 'Blue Marble': The iconic and stunning view of Earth, now known as the 'Blue Marble' was taken by the crew of the last ...