This fantastic photograph from the first EVA of the Apollo program features a simultaneous EVA by Russell Schweickart who took the photograph with the Hasselblad 500 EL as he was spacewalking over the ...
Fifty-seven years ago, three American astronauts set forth on one of the most audacious and inspiring journeys in human history. In late December 1968, NASA astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell, and ...
Apollo 8, launched in December 1968, was the first crewed mission to orbit the Moon, achieving several significant firsts, including orbiting another celestial body and transmitting live television ...
'My reason for joining NASA was to participate in the Apollo program, the lunar program, and hopefully beat the Russians. I never looked at it for any individual goals.' When you purchase through ...
The last time a crew of Americans rode a rocket toward the Moon, the country was reeling from assassinations, riots, and a grinding war. Apollo 8’s Christmas flight in 1968 did not fix any of that, ...