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.

On this day in history: The Apollo 8 crew made a discovery that would change the way we look at the planet Earth forever. I found fame as an ’80s rock star. Now I'm fighting to get my breast implants ...

Warmer air continues to stick around into the weekend, then temperatures turn sharply colder once again behind showers and storms on Sunday. The money will go to 40 partner agencies across the area to ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — In what would become one of the most watched television events of its time, the three astronauts of Apollo 8 offered humanity a profound Christmas gift: a live broadcast from lunar ...

On Christmas Eve 1968, the Earth received a message from astronauts on a mission like no other - the first around the moon. NASA will return in 2026. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

During their historic first crewed mission orbiting the Moon, the Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders performed a Christmas Eve broadcast, reciting the initial ten verses of ...