The most famous photograph in the US space program may not be the one showing Neil Armstrong landing on the moon, but the image of the Earth seen rising above the moon’s horizon, transmitted from space by the crew on December 24, 1968. Apollo 8 – Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders. It was… Read More »
William Anders, who has died aged 90, was an American astronaut who flew on what was considered NASA’s most daring space mission; As a member of the Apollo 8 crew, he became one of the first three men to travel to the Moon; Here they lingered in orbit for a day, capturing mankind’s first close-up… Read More »
Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders, who was one of the first people to orbit the moon and took the iconic first photo of the Earth rising above the lunar surface, died Friday when a plane he was piloting crashed ashore near the San Juan Islands. Washington state. He was 90 years old. The Federal Aviation… Read More »
The recent death of Frank Borman, commander of NASA’s 1968 Apollo 8 mission, has brought attention to this incredible first journey to the Moon. It was eight months before Apollo 11, when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first explored the lunar surface. But the impact of Apollo 8’s “Earthrise” image (Earth as seen from the… Read More »