On the morning of Dec. 21, 1968 NASA’s Apollo 8 spacecraft lifted off atop a Saturn V rocket from Launch Complex 39 at Kennedy Space Center on humanity's first journey to another world.

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.

By August, delays in the lunar module development meant that the mission would not have the very spacecraft it was intended to test. That’s when Apollo program manager George Low proposed a bold ...

On October 9 the Apollo 8 assembly made the slow journey, using a great “crawler” tractor at Kennedy, to Launch Pad 39A, a distance of 5 kilometers (3.1 miles). Launch for Apollo 8 was planned ...

A feature-length documentary about the first humans to fly to the moon needs the public's help to be ready in time for the mission's 50th anniversary in December. "First to the Moon: The Journey ...

Here’s a first look at the trailer & poster for FIRST TO THE MOON, a new documentary film that tells the amazing story of the Apollo 8 mission and the three men that crewed it. Through restored ...

Fifty years ago this week, Apollo 8 left Earth, went to the moon and orbited it 10 times. "Apollo's Daring Mission" explores the journey.

On Dec. 21, 1968, the Apollo program's second manned spaceflight lifted off from Earth to orbit the moon. Many people still remember the greetings from astronauts, sent from space.

Former NASA astronaut Frank Borman, who in 1968 led the first mission to fly humans to the moon, has died. Borman lifted off twice: on the Gemini 7 mission in 1965 and Apollo 8 into lunar orbit.

But the Apollo 8 crew — Milwaukee native James Lovell, Frank Borman and William Anders — were the first humans to travel to Earth's most ancient companion, the moon.

On Dec. 21, 1968, the Apollo program's second manned spaceflight lifted off from Earth to orbit the moon. Many people still remember the greetings from astronauts, sent from space.