On Christmas Eve 1968, Apollo 8 crewmembers Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders made a live broadcast from orbit around the Moon.

Astronauts captivated a global audience with a live broadcast from lunar orbit in 1968, uniting viewers with a Christmas card from the moon.

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In their historic first crewed mission to the Moon, Apollo 8 crew Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders made a Christmas Eve broadcast, reading the first 10 verses of the biblical book of Genesis.

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The last time a crew of Americans rode a rocket toward the Moon, the country was reeling from assassinations, riots, and a ...

As Eugene Cernan took his last steps on the lunar surface, the Apollo 17 commander promised to come back. “As we leave the Moon at Taurus-Littrow,” Cernan said Dec. 13, 1972, “we leave as we came and, ...