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 when the ...

Leonard S. Marcus brings the wonder of a 1968 snapshot to a new generation. “Earthrise,” taken by the Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders while in lunar orbit on Christmas Eve, 1968, at a ...

More than 50 years after Apollo 8’s legendary Earthrise photo, a new image from the Moon’s surface delivers a hauntingly ...

Anders was part of the Apollo 8 mission, which orbitted the Moon before returning to Earth. The mission circled the Moon for ...

Why Apollo 8 was our 'cosmic birth' Apollo 8 was the second ... module — Apollo's human-rated system for voyages between Earth and the moon — would be ready by December 1968, according to ...

The colour photograph of Earthrise - taken by Apollo 8 astronaut, William A. Anders, December 24, 1968. Although the photograph is usually mounted with the moon below the earth, this is how Anders ...

to help them remember Apollo 8 and humankind's first venture from the earth. And we all had various suggestions." Lovell: "Almost the whole world would be listening to us on Christmas Eve.

The former Apollo 8 astronaut best known for taking the iconic ''Earthrise'' photo, who died last month while piloting a plane over the waters off Washington state, was doing a flyby near a friend ...

Read some insider stories from the Apollo 8 mission to the moon ... "The one nice thing about being on earth if someone gets sick, it lands on the floor. In 0-G [zero gravity], it floats ...

It doesn't mean that much to me," Borman said. Yet his trip around the moon meant the world to the denizens of Earth. His Apollo 8 crew, accompanied by James Lovell and William A. Anders ...

Getting from Earth to space isn’t just about speed—it’s about planning the right trajectory. The Moon, our closest neighbor, ...