Humanity has changed an awful lot in the past 58 Years. The moon? Not so much. It was in 1968 that astronauts first drew near the moon, and it will be early this year, if all goes as planned, that a ...

The mission, called Artemis II, will send a crew in the Orion capsule to verify that its life-support, navigation, communications, and flight systems work as designed in deep space. The astronauts are ...

The mission will carry four astronauts on a roughly 10-day journey around the Moon and back — the first time humans have ...

One morning this past June, inside the mission control building at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, 20 or so flight controllers were seated at consoles arranged in neat rows. The atmosphere was ...

Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum is unveiling a new Apollo 8 exhibit, commemorating one of the most daring space missions and the USS Yorktown’s essential role in its dramatic recovery. Launched ...

As we prepare to say good-bye and good riddance to 2025, I can’t help but think of another time when America was seriously divided. In 1968, America was perhaps even more divided than we are now.

MONROE, La. (KNOE) - The first manned mission to the moon returned to earth on December 27, 1968. Apollo 8’s crew did not walk on the moon’s surface, but Frank Borman, William Anders, and James Lovell ...

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) — On December 27, 1968, the Apollo 8 mission returned safely to Earth after a record six days in space. Apollo 8 was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida on Dec. 21, 1968. It had ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (WCSC) — Fifty-seven years ago, astronauts on the first manned mission to the moon returned to Earth safely after a historic six-day journey. Frank Borman, James Lovell Jr., and ...

Space.com reports that the Apollo 8 moonshot saved 1968, looking back at the first crewed mission to orbit the moon and asking if a similar mission today could have the same meaning. In December 1968, ...

Apollo 8's 1968 Christmas Eve discovery On this day in history: The Apollo 8 crew made a discovery that would change the way we look at the planet Earth forever.