It may be that the most famous photo from the American space program is not the shot of Neil Armstrong landing on the moon, but the image of the Earth seen above the moon’s horizon, an image taken from space on December 24, 1968. the crew was passed on. of Apollo 8 – Frank Borman, … Read more
William Anders, who has died aged 90, was an American astronaut who flew on what is often considered NASA’s most daring space mission; as a crew member of Apollo 8, he became one of the first three men to travel to the moon, where they spent a day in orbit and captured humanity’s first close-up … Read more
Bill Anders, the Apollo 8 astronaut who was one of the first humans to orbit the moon and who took the iconic first photo of the Earth rising above the moon’s surface, died Friday when a plane he was piloting crashed near the San Juan Islands off the coast of Washington State. He was 90. … Read more
The recent death of Frank Borman, commander of NASA’s Apollo 8 mission in 1968, has focused attention on that incredible first trip to the moon. It took place eight months before Apollo 11, where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first explored the moon’s surface. However, the impact of Apollo 8’s ‘Earthrise’ photo – the view … Read more