NASA's Apollo 8 mission in 1968 became the first human spaceflight to reach the Moon and back but an image repeatedly portrayed on social media as showing a couple watching its launch is digitally ...

Read some insider stories from the Apollo 8 mission to the moon. "After we cleared the launch pad, now we were being propelled by the first stage in these five giant engines, building up thrust ...

On January 27, 1967, during a practice launch countdown ... orbited the earth for ten days in an Apollo command-service module. Apollo 8: Lunar Orbit With the Lunar Module still in process ...

That same day, NASA managers met to select a formal target launch date. That meeting resulted in 16 July 1969 being chosen as Apollo 11’s launch day – a target the mission would meet.

Kennedy’s challenge to land a man on the moon in 1969 a reality. They flocked to the Apollo program for many reasons. Some relished the idea of exploring new worlds. Others were inspired by a ...