The Apollo 8 astronauts were heroes, but they were also human. They shared jokes and fun, moments of weakness, and the ...
“Hurry, quick!” snapped William 'Bill' Anders, Apollo 8 lunar module pilot, as the spacecraft window he was looking out of rotated away from Earth. Just moments before, the planet had come into view, ...
"Even though we came all the way to the Moon, the most important discovery was the Earth." In 1968, astronaut Bill Anders, ...
Retired American Astronaut William Anders has died. The member of the famed Apollo 8 crew was killed in a plane crash off of Washington state. Authorities say he was flying the plane. From the Apollo ...
One of the most famous photographs of the Apollo era, the Earth appearing to rise above the moon’s limb, taken by the Apollo 8 crew on Dec. 24, 1968. Image courtesy of NASA. Precisely on time on Dec.
Early Apollo Missions: Earth Orbit Apollo missions flew unmanned until October 11, 1968, when Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and ...