A new documentary on Apollo 8, “First To The Moon”, by filmmaker Paul Hildebrandt has been released. I am not going to mince words: this is the finest space documentary I have ever seen.

The astronauts of Apollo 8 were the first men to see the far side of the moon with their own eyes, without the aid of optical devices. From their orbital altitude of 69 statute miles, Frank Borman ...

You may recall the monumental moment in space exploration history when Apollo 8, the first crewed spacecraft to leave Earth's gravitational sphere to orbit the moon, embarked on its mission.

Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the moon, entered lunar orbit on Christmas ... there is a Santa Claus,” and the crew began the journey home. “The fact that it was on Christmas Eve ...

It was the first flight of the complete set of Apollo hardware and a maiden journey for the ... Mauro region of the moon, the original destination for Apollo 13. 7 + 8. Apollo 15 - July 31 ...

Apollo 8 was the first manned voyage to a celestial body. Its three-man crew of Mission Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot James Lovell, and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders became the ...

Apollo 8, launched in 1968, was the first NASA mission to both leave low Earth orbit and reach the moon. Borman, along with astronauts James Lovell, and William Anders, orbited the moon 10 times ...

In about a year's time, the crew of three Americans and one Canadian hope to board the capsule that will take them on a 10-day journey ... of the moon for the first time since the last Apollo ...

Apollo 8 was the first manned voyage to a celestial body. Its three-man crew of Mission Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot James Lovell, and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders became the ...

It was one in a series of noteworthy moments for the four-person crew since NASA revealed the names of the astronauts who will be the first people to fly around the Moon since 1972. But many of ...