Apollo 8 flew three astronauts around the moon in 1968. Artemis 2 plans to run a similar mission in 2024 or so, and the mission commander said the astronauts do see parallels in the two missions.

The film "Debriefing Apollo 8," released in 1969, documents the historic Apollo 8 mission, which marked humanity's first orbit around the Moon. It highlights the collaborative efforts of numerous ...

Astronaut Frank Borman, the commander of the 1968 Apollo 8 mission that circled the moon, has died. The Gary native was 95.

A post shows Nixon speaking to Apollo 11 astronauts while they're on the moon with 'Earthrise', a photo taken during Apollo 8, on the wall behind him.

Their mission set the stage, a mere seven months later, for the Apollo 11 crew to make history when two of the three crew members—Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin—walked on the moon.

Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the moon, entered lunar orbit on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1968. That evening, the astronauts–Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot Jim Lovell, and ...

Maj. William Anders, a member of the Apollo 8 “Genesis Flight” crew, which successfully completed the first manned space mission to orbit the moon in 1968, died on Friday at the age of 90 in ...

The Apollo 8-style Artemis 2 mission will see NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glove and Christina Hammock Koch, and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen, embark on a 10-day trip around the Moon.

Retired astronaut William Anders, who was one of the first three humans to orbit the moon, capturing the famed "Earthrise" photo during NASA's Apollo 8 mission in 1968, died on Friday in the crash ...

The success of Apollo 7′s mission in October 1968 to show system reliability on long duration flights made NASA decide it was time to take a shot at flying to the moon.

Watch: Apollo 8 crew's Genesis reading The full audio of Apollo 8's Christmas Eve message. NASA produced this video some years later, adding video footage from multiple Apollo missions.