(Reuters) -Retired astronaut William Anders, who was one of the first three humans to orbit the moon, capturing the famed "Earthrise" photo during NASA's Apollo 8 mission in 1968, died on Friday in ...
More than five decades after the last Apollo crew left the lunar surface, the boot prints they pressed into the regolith ...
Apollo astronaut Thomas Kenneth Mattingly II, known for helping the crew of Apollo 13 safely return to Earth after an explosion doomed their lunar mission, has died at the age of 87, NASA announced.
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 ...
It's 55 years since US astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong became the first people to walk on the Moon. Neil Armstrong stepped onto the surface of the Moon on 20 July 1969. As he did so, he ...
My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers, Jim Lovell, the Apollo 13 commander who died last week at 97, will always be remembered for steering a crippled spacecraft safely home in 1970. But ...
You’re in a spacecraft, on a mission to land on the moon for the first time in history, and the microphone to Earth is off. What do you say? Now you can listen in on a NASA Web site and find out. As ...