explaining his reaction to opening the Apollo 8 capsule The Apollo 8 mission made history and its crew were rightfully honored as the bravest of explorers. Of course, these heroes were only human.

"I don't know that I could spend a month on a desert island with Frank [Borman]; we might tear each other apart before it was over. I might get two weeks in with [Jim] Lovell though." When the ...

Maj. Gen. Bill Anders, 90, was a member of the Apollo 8 space mission, which was the first crew to reach the moon in 1968. He took one of the most famous photographs of the Earth rising over the ...

50 years ago this Christmas, three Nasa astronauts; Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders became the first people to orbit the Moon. At the time, the Apollo 8 mission was hailed as the greatest ...

One of the first men to orbit the Moon has told BBC Radio 5 Live that it's "stupid" to plan manned missions to Mars. Bill Anders, Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo 8, the first manned spaceflight to ...