Apollo 8, humans' first swing around the Moon, launched 50 years ago today. Here's how it went down. The second manned Apollo mission was as successful as it was improbable.

Livingston said the auction house received very strong prices for the Apollo 11 goods. The merchandise wasn't limited to Apollo 11 pieces, though there were around 150 items that came from that ...

The Apollo Program might have continued for many years, ... Apollo 21 (I-1), a Saturn V-launched mission to lunar polar orbit, marked the start of a new phase of Apollo lunar exploration.

Apollo 8 — Dec. 21, 1968. Astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders became the first humans to leave low-Earth orbit, heading on a trajectory that took them around the moon and ...

The huge Saturn 5 rocket boosts the Apollo 8 space craft from the launch complex 39A at Cape Kennedy, Fla. in a Dec. 21, 1968.

Fifty-three years ago this week, America launched Apollo 11, a mission that reached a pinnacle of scientific and national achievement with the successful landing of the Lunar Module Eagle on the Moon.

Members of the San Jose Astronomical Association set telescopes for visitors to look at hydrogen or plasma coming off of the sun during the Apollo exhibit aboard the USS Hornet Museum in Alameda ...

Fifty years ago, Apollo 8 lifted off. It was the first time humans left low-earth orbit and flew to the moon. The mission capped a difficult year in U.S. history.