Fifty years ago, a world wracked by war and division watched as three of its own became the first to enter lunar orbit and transmit an unexpected Christmas Eve gift: Wonderment. Apollo 8 astronauts ...

WASHINGTON — NASA Television will honor the 40th anniversary of the historic Christmas Eve broadcast by the Apollo 8 crew with special programming Dec. 24 and 25 on the NASA TV Public Channel (101).

Forty-five years ago, while astronaut Frank Borman rotated the Apollo 8 spacecraft from a nose down position, his focus on the lunar surface was interrupted. Something caught his eye. "Look at that ...

"The systems work! Holy smokes! We can fly around the moon." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA's first moon commander in ...

The residents of Timber Cove lined their streets with luminarias and then looked to the moon on Christmas Eve of 1968. One of their neighbors, NASA astronaut Jim Lovell, was circling that familiar yet ...

In their historic first crewed mission to the Moon, Apollo 8 crew Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders made a Christmas Eve broadcast, reading the first 10 verses of the biblical book of Genesis.

The broadcasts from Apollo 8 invited huge television audiences onboard the spacecraft. The astronauts showed how things worked in the capsule and performed a memorable Christmas Eve reading. But the ...

It’s hard to believe it was half a century ago. Really hard. On Dec. 21, 1968, a gleaming white rocket, standing taller than the Statue of Liberty, lifted off from Cape Kennedy on a six-day mission ...

1968 was a year desperately in need of a Merry Christmas. The year had seen student protests worldwide, the Tet Offensive in the Vietnam War, a chaotic Democratic National Convention, the ...