"I think we were all surprised at how strong that thing was," Apollo 8 astronaut Frank Borman said ... into bench-like "couches" during launch and landing in the Command Module, which measured ...

Explore the extraordinary story of NASA’s Apollo Program, beginning with President Kennedy’s bold vision of a lunar landing ...

Once the mission for Apollo 8 was reconfigured ... Borman had argued for a night landing to reduce the number of orbits around the moon and decrease the risk of anything going wrong.

Overall view of the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center, Building 30, on the third day of the Apollo 8 lunar orbit mission. Seen on the television monitor is a picture of ...

Apollo 8, the first mission to ride the mighty Saturn V rocket, was also a complete success, culminating in the first manned orbit of the moon. But before a moon landing could be attempted ...

clearly show the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 landing sites more than 50 years later. The photos were taken by the Chandrayaan 2 orbiter in April 2021 and were reshared on Curiosity’s X page ...