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, June 7 ...

Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and William Anders photographed "Earthrise" on December 24, 1968. It made Earth look small and fragile.

Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders held many titles in his life. He was, of course, an astronaut, but also an Air Force pilot, engineer, museum co-founder, U.S. ambassador, and more. People might ...

When I delved deeper into the photo archives from Apollo 8, one added wrinkle awaited me: The iconic color image wasn’t the first Earthrise photo, as most people assumed.Just before he saw the ...

The crew of Apollo 8 was rocketing towards the moon – the first time that man had left Earth’s orbit. It was a daring mission, less than two years removed from the launch pad fire that had ...

The rising Earth looms above the lunar horizon in this telephoto view taken from the Apollo 8 spacecraft. For years, space historians have debated who took this picture.

Apollo 8 launched from Cape Kennedy Air Force Station in Florida on December 21, 1968. It was the first crewed spacecraft to leave Earth’s gravitational sphere of influence and also the first ...

The Apollo 8 astronauts returned to Earth on December 27, their spacecraft safely splashing down in the northern Pacific. All three crew members were named Time magazine's "Men of the Year." ...

Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders, who snapped the iconic “Earthrise” photo of our planet as seen from lunar orbit, died today in a plane crash in waters off the San Juan Islands.

Apollo 8's successful mission paved the way for Apollo 11 to fulfill U.S. President John F. Kennedy's goal of landing a man on the Moon before the end of the decade. NASA (The National Aeronautics and ...

Bid now on Apollo 8, The first photograph taken by humans of the whole Moon from a perspective not visible from Earth, December 1968 by NASA. View a wide Variety of artworks by NASA, now available for ...